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SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH,  CHICAGO,  1842=1892. 


COMPLIMENTARY  COPY 

For  Subscribers  to  the 

Semi=Centennial  Anniversary  Fund, 


THE 


SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH 


I)  K 


CHICAGO. 


JUNE  IST,  1842,  to  JUNE  IST,  1892. 


1892. 


CHICAGO: 

KNIGHT,  LEONARD  &  Co.,  PRINTERS. 


r//. 


AN    HISTORICAL  SKETCH 

FROM  MATERIAL  COLLECTED  BY 

THOMAS    B.    CARTER 

AND  EDITED  BY 

JOHN  C.  GRANT. 

A  COMMITTEE  APPOINTED  THERETO  AT  A 
MEETING  OF  THE  CHURCH. 


A  LIST  OF  THE  MEMBERS  OF  THE  CHURCH 

1842-1892. 

PREPARED    BY 

HENRY    M.    RALSTON, 

CLERK  OF  THE  SESSION. 


III. 

AN   ACCOUNT  OF  THE  EXERCISES 

CONNECTED  WITH  THE 

SEMI-CENTENNIAL  ANNIVERSARY  OF  THE  CHURCH 
HELD  JUNE  19  TO  22,  1892, 

ARRANGED   BY  THE   PASTOR, 

REV.  SIMON  J.  McPHERSON,  D.D. 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 


OPPOSITE  PAGE 

THE  CHURCH  ON  RANDOLPH  STREET,  near  Clark  Street,  27 

THE  SALOON  BUILDING,    .....  29 

THE  SPOTTED  CHURCH,  corner  of  Wabash  Avenue  and 

Washington  Street,        .  .  .  .  31 

THE  PRESENT  CHURCH  BUILDING,  Corner  of  Michigan 

Avenue  and  Twentieth  Street,      ...  40 

INTERIOR  OF  PRESENT  CHURCH  BUILDING  AS  IT  AP- 
PEARED DURING  THE  SEMI-CENTENNIAL  CELE- 
BRATION, .....  212 


PORTRAITS. 


GEORGE  ARMOUR,               .            .            .     •                    .  45 

BRADFORD  Y.  AVERELL,           .            .            .            .  231 

OSCAR  F.  AVERY,    ......  42 

ELIHU  BAKER,             .....  58 

WILLIAM  H.  BROWN,           .....  19 

EDWARD  BRUST,          .....  239 

ISAAC  H.  BURCH,               .....  70 

THOMAS  B.  CARTER,                ....  68 

GEORGE  C.  CLARKE,           .....  237 

JOHN  CRERAR,              .....  139 

DR.  F.  CRUMBAUGH,          .....  145 

REV.  E.  F.  DICKINSON,            .            .            .            .  87 


VI  PORTRAITS. 


OPPOSITE  PAGE 

REV.   EZEKIEL  FOLSOM,                  ....  133 

REV.  J.  MONRO  GIBSON,  D.D.,       ....  xiii,  53 

WILLIAM  R.  GOULD,     .....  38 

ZWINGLIUS  GROVER,           .....  63 

E.  H.  HADDOCK,         .....  226 

REV.  A.  W.  HENDERSON,    .  73 

CYRUS  F.  HILL,            .....  241 

JOHN  W.  HOOKER,             .....  223 

REUBEN  D.  JONES,       .             .             .             .             .  60 

CHARLES  P.  KELLOGG,      .....  74 

HIRAM  F.  MATHER,     ...             .             .             .  66 

JOHN  W.  MCGENNISS,        ,  .  .  .  .34 

REV.  S.  J.  McPHERSON,  D.D.,            .             .             .  xiii,  55 

MRS.  MARY  E.  MUNGER,               .             .             .             .  129 

PETER  PAGE,    ......  232 

REV.  R.  W.  PATTERSON,  D.D.,     ....  xiii,  49 

MRS.  R.  W.  PATTERSON,          ....  50 

MRS.  CLARISSA  C.  PECK,    .....  134 

ROBERT  W.  RALSTON,              .            .            .            .  91 

B.  W.  RAYMOND,   ......  xiv 

MRS.  B.  W.  RAYMOND,            .            .            .            .  137 

MARK  SKINNER,     ......  64 

JAMES  A.  SMITH,          .....  36 

GEORGE  W.  SNOW,              .....  33 

ELISHA  WADSWORTH,              ....  24 

MRS.  ANN  E.  WEBSTER,     .....  23 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,     .                          ...  127 

REV.  J.  AMBROSE  WIGHT,               ....  95 

SYLVESTER  WILLARD,               ....  xvii 

JOHN  C.  WILLIAMS,            .....  20 


CONTENTS. 


PAGE 

PREFACE,            ......  xi 

LIST  OF  PASTORS,  ......  xiii 

LIST  OF  ELDERS  AND  DEACONS,          .            .            .  xiv 

LIST  OF  TRUSTEES,            .            .            .            .            .  xv 

LIST  OF  SUPERINTENDENTS  OF  THE  SUNDAY-SCHOOL,  xvii 

ORGANIZATION,       .            .            .  .            .            .19 

Original  Members,               .             .  .             .                 19 

Reasons  for  Organization,               •  .             .            ..           21 

Additions  to  the  Church,  1842-43,  .             .                  26 

PLACES  OF  WORSHIP,         .            .             .            .  .27 

The  Building  on  Randolph  Street,             .             .  27 

The  Spotted  Church,                .             .             .  .31 

The  Present  Church  Building,     ...  40 

BASIS  OF  UNION  OF  THE  SECOND  AND  OLIVET  CHURCHES,         41 

PASTORS,           ......  48 

Rev.  Robert  W.  Patterson,  D.D.          ...  48 

Rev.  J.  Monro  Gibson,  D.D.          ...  53 

Rev.  Simon  J.  McPherson,  D.D.  55 

THE  SESSION,   .  .  .  '    .    ,  57 

Discipline,          ......  68 

TRUSTEES,         ......  70 

vii 


Vlll  CONTENTS. 


PAGE 

THE  SUNDAY-SCHOOL  OF  THE  CHURCH,  ...  72 

MISSION  WORK  OF  THE  CHURCH  (City),          .            .  76 

Howe  Street  Sunday-school,     ....  76 

Moseley  Mission,    .....  77 

The  Eleanor  I.  Reid  Kindergarten,                  .            .  84 

Rev.  E.  F.  Dickinson,        ....  87 

Bethany  Mission,           .....  88 

Burr  Mission,           .             .             .             .             .  91 

OTHER  CHURCHES,             .             ....  93 

North  Presbyterian  Church,            ...  93 

Westminster  Church,    .             .             .  94 

Olivet  Church,         .....  94 

Immanuel  Presbyterian  Church,          .             .             .  88 

REVIVALS,         .......  96 

MISSIONARY  AND  BENEVOLENT  ORGANIZATIONS,             .  100 

The  Dorcas  Society,           .             .             .             .  100 

Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Society,              .             .  105 

The  Young  Ladies'  Foreign  Missionary  Society.  108 

The  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Society,              .  109 

The  Presbyterian  Hospital  Committee,            .             .  112 

The  Work  of  the  Young  People  of  the  Church  113 
The  Industrial  School,               .             .             .             .117 

Music,               .             .             .             .             .             .  118 

PRESBYTERIANS  AND  CONGREGATION ALISTS,       .            .  122 

The  Plan  of  Union,             .             .             .             .  122 

Galena  Seminary,          .  .  .  .  .122 

Lake  Forest  University,     .             .             .             .  123 

Religious  Newspapers,             .            .            .            .  124 

PERSONAL,         .             .             .             .             .             .  127 

Mrs.  Mary  E.  Munger,  .  .  .  .128 


CONTENTS.  IX 


PAGE 

Rev.  Ezekiel  Folsom,          ....  133 

Mrs.  Clarissa  C.  Peck,  .....  134 

Mrs.  B.  W.  Raymond,         ....  136 

Mr.  John  Crerar,  .....  137 

Sextons,       ......  143 

CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  BENEVOLENT  PURPOSES,     .  .         144 

INFLUENCE  OF  THE  CHURCH  ON  THE  NORTHWEST,      .  148 

LIST  OF  MEMBERS  OF  THE  CHURCH,  1842-1892,  .         153 

Names  of  Absent  Members,  .  .  .  154 

Names  of  Present  Members,    .  .  .  .         157 

Names  of  Members  Deceased,  Dismissed,  or  Ordained 

to  the  Ministry,-          .  .  .  .  .176 

CELEBRATION  OF  THE  FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY,        .  207 

Preliminary  Arrangements,       .  .  .  .          209 

First   Day — Jubilee  Services,   Sunday,    June    19, 

Morning  Worship,       .  .  .  .213 

Anniversary  Sermon,  .  .  .  217 

Memorial  Hymn,  ....         241 

Jubilee  of  the  Sunday-schools,      .  .  241 

Names  of  the  Officers  and  Teachers  of  the  Sunday- 
school,  1891-1892,          ....  249 
Names  of  Members  of  the  Sunday-school,  June,  1892,         250 
Union  Communion  Service,            .             .             .                253 
Dr.  Gibson's  Letter,      .             .             .             .             .258 
Second  Day — Fellowship  Meeting,       .             .  267 
Addresses, 

The  Pastor,  .  .  .  .  267 

Dr.  Patterson,  .  .  .  .268 

Dr.  Barrows,  .  .  278 

Dr.  Withrbw,  .  .  .         284 


CONTENTS. 


PAGE 

Dr.  McClure,           .'  288 

Dr.  Totheroh,                  ....  293 

Rev.  Mr.  Hubbell,               .            .            .  297 

Third  Day — The  Social  Reception,            .             .  300 

Dr.  Henson's  Address,        .             .             .  305 

Dr.  Gunsaulus'  Poem,  .  .  .311 

Fourth  Day — Prayer  Meeting,  participated  in  by 

Rev.  A.  S.  Wight,                .             .             .  313 

Mr.  N.  S.  Bouton,         ....  320 

Dr.  Andrews,           ....  324 
Mr.  S.  D.  Ward,             '.             .             .             .331 

Gen.  S.  L.  Brown,  ....  333 

Rev.  E.  R.  Davis,          ....  339 
Letters,               ..... 

Rev.  J.  Monro  Gibson,  D.  D.                 .             .  340 

Rev.  M.  Woolsey  Stryker,  D.D.     .             .  340 

Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter,  D.D.     .             .             .  341 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Cheney,  D.D.        .             .  343 

ERRATA  AND  ADDENDA,               ....  344 

INDEX,              .            .             .            .            .            .  345 


EDITOR'S  PREFACE. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Church  and  Congregation 
held  December  29,  1886,  Messrs.  Thomas  B.  Carter 
Edward  G.  Mason  and  John  C.  Grant  were  appointed 
a  committee  to  prepare  an  historical  sketch  of  this 
Church. 

Mr.  Mason,  to  the  sincere  regret  of  the  other  mem- 
bers of  the  Committee,  did  not  find  it  convenient  to 
accept  the  appointment.  Mr.  Carter,  as  the  only 
male  survivor  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Church, 
as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  many  years 
in  its  early  history,  anfl  as  the  senior  member  of  the 
Session,  was  especially  fitted  to  collect  the  materials. 
This  he  has  done  with  rare  perseverance  and  fidelity ; 
supported  by  his  love  for  the  Church  in  a  labor 
which  has  at  times  severely  taxed  his  strength. 

Dr.  Patterson  has  kindly  answered  many  ques- 
tions from  the  marvelous  stores  of  his  ready 
memory.  From  the  frequent  and  extended  inter- 
views to  which  he  has  consented,  much  has  been 
learned  which  will  be  of  increasing  interest  in  years 
to  come. 

No  attempt  at  analysis  or  deduction  has  been 
made  in  the  strictly  historical  part  of  this  book. 


xii  EDITOR'S  PREFACE. 

In  all  the  cases  where  the  facts  themselves  were  not 
their  own  best  interpreters,  they  have  been  examined 
and  their  relations  made  plain  by  the  speakers  who 
participated  in  the  exercises  of  the  Semi-Centennial 
Celebration. 

In  editing  this  sketch  those  parts  of  Mr.  Carter's 
manuscript  and  of  Dr.  Patterson's  notes  that  relate  to 
those  now  living  have  been  omitted,  or  rather 
reserved  for  the  use  of  the  Committees  which  shall 
have  charge  of  future  Historical  Sketches. 

•  All  who  are  interested  in  the  development  of  Chi- 
cago, and  in  the  history  of  this  Church,  which  is 
peculiarly  typical  of  Chicago,  will  realize  how  much 
is  due  to  Mr.  Carter  and  to  Dr.  Patterson,  by  whose 
kindness  this  sketch  has  been  made  possible. 

Important  assistance  has  been  received  from  Dr. 
McPherson,  Col.  H.  W.  Jackson,  Mr.  Henry  Keep, 
Mr.  S.  D.  Ward,  Gen.  S.  Iv.  Brown,  Mrs.  P.  A. 
Avery,  Mrs.  M.  J.  Neahr,  Mrs.  M.  B.  Campbell,  Mrs. 
C.  L.  Page,  Mrs.  Wallace  Barker,  Miss  F.  Cimdall  and 
Miss  Bertha  Baker,  whose  contributions  to  the  work 
have  been  printed  with  only  such  modifications  as 
were  required  to  make  the  narrative  continuous. 

JOHN  C.  GRANT,  Editor. 
CHICAGO,  September  i,  1892. 


PASTORS. 


REV.  ROBERT  W.  PATTERSON,  D.D. 
1842—1873. 


REV.  J.  MUNRO  GIBSON,  D.D. 

1874—1880. 


REV.  SIMON  J.  McPHERSON,  D.D. 


ELDERS. 

ARRANGED  IN  THE  ORDER  OF  THE  YEAR  OF  THEIR  ELECTION. 


(Both  dates  inclusive.) 


*Benjamin  W.  Raymond, 
*  William  H.  Brown,  - 
*tSylvester  Willard, 
*John  C.  Williams,     - 
*JSeth  Johnson, 

Thomas  B.  Carter,     - 
*JJ.  Ambrose  Wight, 
*tReuben  D.  Jones. 
*tElihu  Baker, 
ID.  R.  Holt, 
*Zwinglius  Grover, 
*Hiram  F.  Mather,     - 
John  S.  Gould, 
*tMark  Skinner,  - 
JGeorge  E.  Purington,    - 
JGeorge  M.  High, 
JHenryJ.  Willing, 
f*Oscar  F.  Avery, 
f*Frederick  Crumbaugh, 
*George  Armour, 
Erastus  Foote, 
George  C.  Benton,    - 
*Edward  Brust, 
Henry  M.  Ralston,    - 
Henry  P.  Merriman,     - 
Thomas  Dent,  - 
Asa  G.  Pettibone, 
William  M.  Baker, 
John  C.  Grant, 


1842-83 
1842-67 
1842-3 
1843-65 

1843-5 

1845— 

1848-56 

1856-62 

1856-7 

1856-61 

1862-91 

1862-8 

X866 — 

1866-80 

1866-68 

1869-73 

1869-77 

1871-79 

1871-79 

1877-91 

1877 — 

1877— 

1882-7 

1882 — 

1882— 

1884 — 

1884 — 

1888 — 

1888 — 


*  Deceased.     J  Removed  to  other  Churches,     t  From  the  Session  of  Olivet  Church. 


BOARD  OF  DEACONS. 

CHOSEN  OCTOBER 


George  W.  Cass. 
Harlan  D.  Cook. 
Lester  Curtiss. 


'William  F.  Hunt. 
John  G.  Moore. 
Frederic  W.  Steele. 


TRUSTEES. 


ARRANGED  IN  THE  ORDER  OF  DATE  OF  FIRST  ELECTION. 

There  is  no  record  of  the  election  of  1843 ;  it  has  been  supposed  that  the 
old  Board  held  over. 


(Both  dates  inclusive.) 


*William  H.  Brown,    - 
*George  W.  Merrill, 
*Elisha  Wadsworth,     - 

Silas  B.  Cobb, 
*Mark  Skinner,    - 
*H.  G.  Hubbard,    - 
*John  W.  Hooker, 

Thomas  B.  Carter, 
*John  High,  Jr.,    - 
*E.  H.  Haddock,     - 
*  George  Collins,  - 
*Benjamin  W.  Raymond, 
*George  W.  Snow, 

Josiah  H.  Reed,    - 
*Peter  Page, 
*James  A.  Smith,    - 

Charles  H.  Quinlan,    - 

John  H.  Dunham,  - 
*I.  H.  Burch, 
*Harvey  M.  Thompson,  - 
*Charles  G.  Wicker,    - 
*FredTuttle,  - 
*William  R.  Gould,     - 

Benjamin  V.  Page, 

Henry  Johnson, 
*John  W.  McGenniss,    - 

William  Blair,     - 

P.  L.  Yoe, 
*Walter  Kimball, 
*George  Armour,    - 
*Charles  P.  Kellogg,    - 

Edward  S.  Isham, 

Albert  J.  Averell, 
*George  C.  Clarke, 

*  Deceased. 


1842-1855 

1842-1845 

1842-3,  1846-7 

1842-4 

1842-3,  1858 

1844 

1844-5,  1859-60 

1844,  1846-50 

1845,  1851-2 
1845,  1858-9 
1845-52 
1846-55 
1848-51 
1852-55 

1853 

1853-61 

1854-8 

1856-7,  1861-4 

1856-60 

1856-7 

1859-64 

1860 

1861-8 

1861-5 

1862-4 

1865-8 

1865,  1867-8 
1865-6 
1866-8 

1866,  1869-70 
1867-8 
1869^71 
1869-70 
1869-87 


XVI  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


*John  Crerar, 1869-89 

John  S.  Gould,       -        - 1871-92 

Eugene  S.  Pike, 1871 

Franklin  D.  Gray,         -------  1872-92 

*John  L.  Thompson,    -------  1872-8 

Robert  T.  Lincoln, 1879-89 

Norman  Williams, 1888-92 

Huntington  W.  Jackson, 1890-92 

Edward  G.  Mason, 1890-92 


*  Deceased. 


SUPERINTENDENTS  OF  THE  SUNDAY- 
SCHOOL. 


*Sylvester  Willard,  -  1842-3 

*William  H.  Brown, --  1843-4. 

*Rev.  A.  W.  Henderson,  -  1844-6 

*J.  Ambrose  Wight,  1846-52 

*William  Bross,        --..-.-..  1852-4 

DeVillo  R.  Holt,  -  1854-61 

H.  F.  Waite,    -  ....  .  1861-2 

*Zwinglius  Grover, 1862-4 

Albert  R.  Sabin,  -  1864-7 

Kirk  Hawes, 1867-71 

Henry  P.  Merriman, 1871-3 

Nathaniel  S.  Bouton,          -        - 1873-4 

John  F.  Nichols,      - -  -  1874-5 

Nathaniel  S.  Bouton,  1875-7 

*Charles  P.  Kellogg, 1877-8 

Henry  M.  Ralston, 1878-81 

Hugh  M.  Boice, 1881-3 

Henry  M.  Ralston, -        -  1883-7 

*Cyrus  F.  Hill,          -        -        -        -        -        -      ,  -        -  1887 

Charles  L.  Page, 1887-8 

Turlington  W.  Harvey, 1888- 


*  Deceased. 


ORGANIZATION. 

1842-1892. 


The  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago  was 
organized  under  the  general  law  of  1835,  on  the  first 
day  of  June,  1842,  by  the  following  named  persons, 
all  of  whom  were  received  by  letter  from  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago : 

ORIGINAL  MEMBERS. 

Brown,  William  H.  Merrill,  George  W. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Harriet  C.  Moseley,  Flavel 

Carter,  Thomas  B.  Raymond,  Benjamin  W. 

Carter,  Mrs.  Catherine  R.  Raymond,  Mrs.  Amelia 

Dole,  George  W.  Starkweather,  Charles  R. 

Fullerton,  Mrs.  A.  N.  Starkweather,  Mrs.  M.  E. 

Gage,  Mrs.  Sarah  Webster,  Mrs.  Ann  E. 

High,  John  Willard,  Sylvester 

High,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Williams,  John  C. 

Hooker,  John  W.  Williams,  Mrs.  J.  C. 

Hooker,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Wright,  Miss  Frances  S. 

Johnson,  Seth  Wright,  Mrs.  John 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Seth  Wright,  John  S. 

Of  these  original  members  there  are  living  (June 
ist,  1892)  Mr.  Thomas  B.  Carter  and  Mrs.  Ann  E- 
Webster. 

This  was  the  first  colony  sent  out  by  the  Presby- 
terian churches  of  Chicago. 

The  meeting  for  ecclesiastical  organization  was 
held  in  the  First  Baptist  Church,  then  located  on  the 
southeast  corner  of  Washington  and  La  Salle  streets, 

19 


2O  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

the  site  of  the  present  Chamber  of  Commerce  Build- 
ing. The  organization  was  perfected  by  a  committee 
from  the  Presbytery  of  Ottawa,*  Illinois,  with  which 
the  First  Church  was  ecclesiastically  connected.  Rev. 
Flavel  Bascom,pastor  of  the  First  Church  of  Chicago, 
and  Rev.  George  W.  Elliott,  of  Ottawa,  composed 
this  committee,  and  by  them  the  persons  whose 
names  were  attached  to  the  petition  to  be  organized 
into  a  church,  to  be  called  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Chicago,  were  set  apart  and  constituted  as 
such. 

After  the  ecclesiastical  organization  was  thus 
effected,  and  at  the  same  meeting,  Benjamin  W.  Ray- 
mond, Willian  H.  Brown  and  Sylvester  Willard,  all 
of  whom  had  been  elders  in  the  First  Church,  were 
chosen  elders  for  the  Second  Church. 

A  call  which  had  been  presented  to  Robert  W. 
Patterson,  a  licentiate  of  Cincinnati  Presbytery,  to 
become  the  Pastor  of  the  new  church,  was  then  and 
there  accepted. 

The  pastor's  salary  was  fixed  at  $600  per  annum — 
a  sum  not  so  inadequate  as  it  would  now  seem  to  be.*|* 
This  salary  was  increased  from  time  to  time  till  it 
reached  $5,000,  where  it  remained  for  many  years. 


*  Ottawa  was  a  large  and  quite  important  place  in  those  days.  It  did  not  stand  as 
a  rival  to  Chicago,  but  the  first  settlement  of  Presbyterians  was  in  the  Southern  part  of 
the  State  and  advanced  North,  and  as  Presbyterian  churches  were  organized  they  were 
connected  with  the  Presbytery  of  Ottawa.  The  Presbytery  of  Ottawa  was  afterward 
divided  into  three.  The  Presbyteries  of  Freeport  and  of  Chicago  now  occupy  the 
Northern  parf  of  the  State. 

t  By  the  Constitution  of  1818  the  salary  of  the  Governor  and  of  the  Judges  of  the 
Supreme  Court  (of  Illinois)  was  limited  to  one  thousand  dollars.  By  the  Constitution 
of  1848  the  Governor's  salary  was  increased  to  fifteen  hundred  dollars  and  that  of  the 
Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  to  twelve  hundred  dollars. 


JOHN   C.  WILLIAMS. 


REASONS  FOR  ORGANIZATION.  21 

The  following  account  of  the  legal  organization  of 
the  Church  is  taken  from  the  minutes  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees : 

"  Pursuant  to  notice  given  on  Sunday,  July  3rd, 
1842,  a  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Second 
Church  and  Congregation  was  held  in  the  City  Sa- 
loon* on  Wednesday  afternoon,  July  6th,  at  three 
o'clock,  for  the  purpose  of  electing  trustees  for  the 
ensuing  year.  On  motion,  Mr.  Flavel  Moseley  was 
appointed  Chairman  and  Mr.  T.  B.  Carter,  Secretary. 

It  was  resolved  that  five  be  the  number  of 
trustees,  and  that  they  be  chosen  by  ballot,  voting 
for  all  at  the  same  time,  and  that  the  society  be 
known  as  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  in  the 
City  of  Chicago. 

The  following  persons  were  duly  elected  trustees 
for  one  year :  William  H.  Brown,  George  W.  Merrill, 
Elisha  S.  Wadsworth,  Silas  B.  Cobb  and  Mark 
Skinner." 

There  were  three  principal  reasons  for  organizing 
another  Presbyterian  Church  at  that  time. 

I.      THE    NEED    OF    ADDITIONAL    CHURCH    ACCOMMO- 
DATIONS. 
• 

The  edifice  of  the  First  Church,  then  located  on 
Clark  street,  south  of  Washington  street  (on  the  south 
corner  of  the  alley)  fronting  east,  had  been  twice  en- 
larged, in  1838  and  in  1840,  and  the  limit  of  its  seat- 
ing capacity  was  fast  being  reached.  The  city  was 


*  The  public  hall  of  the  city  was -called  the  "  Saloon."     The  word  was  not  used  in 
its  present  sense,  in  regard  to  this  hall. 


22  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

rapidly  increasing  in  population,  numbering  now  not 
far  from  five  thousand,  and  trie  Church  in  its  mem- 
bership and  attendance  felt  the  effect  of  municipal 
prosperity. 

The  settlement  of  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  as  the 
second  pastor*  to  the  First  Church,  in  the  fall  of 
1840,  had  been  preceded  and  followed  by  extensive 
revivals,  and  large  numbers  had  been  added  to  the 
only  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  city.  The  First 
Church  had  grown  to  be  large  considering  its  accom- 
modations. 

They  had  from  four  to  five  hundred  members,  and 
they  thought  that  a  colony  could  well  be  spared,  and 
Dr.  Bascom  agreed  that  the  time  had  come  when  it 
was  desirable  that  another  church  should  be  organ- 
ized. The  growth  and  all  considerations  taken  to- 
gether indicated  that  it  would  be  a  wise  thing  to  do. 

II.   OPPORTUNITY  OF  OBTAINING  A  PASTOR. 

After  the  resignation  of  Rev.  John  Blatchford  from 
the  pastorate  of  the  First  Church  in  August,  1839, 
the  Church  extended  a  call  to  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom, 
then  Superintendent  of  Home  Missions  in  Illinois, 
under  the  care  of  the  American  Home  Missionary 
Society.  This  call  was  accepted  on  condition  that 
the  Church  would  permit  him  to  close  his  Home 
Missionary  work  and  to  assume  the  pastorate  in  the 
fall.  During  the  interval  Rev.  Mr.  Bascom  secured 
the  services  of  Mr.  Patterson,  then  a  recent  graduate 


*  Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter,  D.D.,  minister.  1833-1837.     Rev.  John  Blatchford,   D.D., 
pastor,  1837-1839. 


REASONS  FOR  ORGANIZATION. 


of  Illinois  College  and  Lane  Theological  Seminary, 
not  yet  ordained. 

Mr.  Patterson  filled  the  vacant  pulpit  during  the 
summer  and  fall,  until  the  installation  of  Rev.  Mr. 
Bascom  in  November,  1840,  to  the  eminent  satisfac- 
tion of  the  Church  and  congregation.  He  seemed 
specially  fitted  to  take  up  the  work  which  must 
evidently  soon  be  done  by  some  one,  and  was  not  less 
attracted  to  Chicago  than  the  people  of  Chicago  to  him. 

After  further  theological  study,  Dr.  Patterson 
visited  the  East,  and  on  his  return  went  to  Monroe, 
Mich.,  and  served  the  Presbyterian  Church  there 
acceptably  for  some  months.  He  returned  to  Chi- 
cago in  the  spring  of  1842,  his  steps  being  guided  by 
a  manifest  Providence.  The  need  of  another  Church 
and  the  presence  in  the  city  of  the  man  for  its  pastor, 
gave  an  immediate  impulse  to  the  movement.  What- 
ever secondary  causes  may  have  influenced  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Second  Church,  the  primary  cause 
was,  without  doubt,  a  people  who  had  found  a  pastor. 

III.      POLITICAL  SITUATION. 

In  common  with  the  rest  of  the  United  States, 
Chicago  felt  the  force  of  the  political  questions  which 
were  then  so  strongly  presented  to  the  consideration 
of  every  intelligent  community. 

The  acknowledgment  of  the  evil  of  slavery 
seemed  to  do  little  toward  suggesting  a  satisfactory 
remedy.  The  conservative  position  which  was  held 
by  many  Christian  men,  in  those  troublous  times, 
caused  many  to  believe  that  it  was  the  part  of  a  wise 


24  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

prudence  to  avoid  the  discussion  in  the  Church  and 
on  the  Sabbath  of  questions  upon  the  details  of 
which  there  was  so  much  disagreement — especially 
as  these  discussions  inevitably  became  heated,  and 
often  acrimonious  as  public  feeling  on  the  subject 
increased. 

While  no  Presbyterian  minister  or  Church  in  the 
Presbytery  of  Ottawa  favored  the  perpetuation  of 
slavery,  there  was  wide  difference  of  opinion  in  regard 
to  the  best  means  of  dealing  with  what  all  recognized 
as  an  evil,  and  in  regard  to  the  moral  responsibility 
of  Church  members  in  connection  with  the  system. 
There  were  many  Christian  men  who  could  not  rest 
so  long  as  slavery  existed,  by  whom  the  abolition  of 
slavery  was  urged  in  season  and  out  of  season. 
There  were  others  no  less  loyal  to  the  principles  of 
liberty,  to  whom  the  means  advised  by  the  more  radi- 
cal seemed  harsh  or  unwise.  Those  who  lived  in  the 
North  West  in  those  days  testify  that  the  ability  to 
preach  anti-slavery  politics  was  in  some  churches 
almost  a  test  of  Christian  sincerity ;  while  in  other 
churches  the  ability  to  abstain  from  what  was  then 
first  called  "politics  in  the  pulpit,"  was  considered  a 
test  of  Christian  prudence.  Between  these  extreme 
views  could  be  found  all  the  intermediate  possibilities 
of  belief  in  regard  to  duty  and  expediency  as  related 
to  the  slavery  question. 

The  First  Presbyterian  Church  was  composed  of 
members  who  had  been  reared  in  widely  separated 
localities,  with  the  most  different  surroundings  ;  and 
the  most  various,  and  in  some  cases  the  most  incom- 


REASONS  FOR  ORGANIZATION.  25 

patible  views  were  represented  by  the  different  mem- 
bers. The  increasing  population  of  the  city  made  it 
easy  for  men  who  thought  substantially  alike  to  form 
organizations  which  should  contain  a  sufficient  num- 
ber of  sympathizers  to  secure  strength  and  prosperity. 
This  was  seen  clearly  by  the  Pastor  of  the  First 
Church,  and  it  led  him  to  encourage  the  organization 
of  another  church.  In  fact  many  new  churches  went 
off,  from  time  to  time,  from  the  old  First  Church, 
which,  nevertheless,  or  rather  on  this  account,  pre- 
sents a  remarkable  and  unbroken  record  of  usefulness 
and  progress.  While  the  conservatives  with  Dr. 
Patterson  were  pushing  forward  the  work  of  the 
Second  Church,  a  large  number  who  had  sympathy 
with  President  Finney's  Oberlin  viewrs  in  regard  to 
sinless  perfection,  with  others  who  held  very  ad- 
vanced views  on  the  slavery  question,  were  drifting 
into  or  founding  Congregational  churches,  whose 
polity  adjusted  itself  more  easily  to  their  needs. 

American  political  history  for  the  first  twenty-five 
years  after  this  Church  was  founded  stands  by  itself 
in  the  annals  of  the  world.  The  results  which  were 
finally  obtained  reflect  the  utmost  credit  on  the  Chris- 
tian courage  of  all  the  branches  of  the  Church.  The 
divinely  appointed  course  of  events  enabled  the  most 
conservative  of  the  Presbyterians  and  the  most  radical 
of  the  Congregationalists  to  demonstrate  to  the  world 
that  they  not  only  believed  in  the  same  God,  but  that 
they  had  the  same  respect  for  law,  the  same  belief  in 
the  political  equality  of  man,  and  the  same  intense  love 
of  liberty  for  themselves  and  for  all  the  human  race. 


26  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

The  relations  which  have  always  existed  be- 
tween the  First  and  Second  Churches  have  been  most 
happy ;  their  houses  of  worship  have  always  been 
near  together,  their  pastors  have  been  devoted  friends, 
and  the  members  of  the  two  churches  and  congrega- 
tions have  been  constantly  drawn  together  by  the 
bonds  of  a  common  social,  business  and  religious 
interest.  There  are  no  two  churches  in  the  coun- 
try to  which  the  common,  and  too  often  meaningless, 
epithet  of  "  Sister  Churches  "  could  be  more  properly 
applied. 

During  the  first  year  of  its  existence  the  new 
Church  received  the  following  thirty-four  accessions 
to  its  membership,  nine  of  whom  are  known  to  be 
living. 

ADDITIONS  TO  THE  CHURCH— JUNE  i,  i842-JUNE  i,  1843. 

Arranged  in  the  order  in  which  they  were  received  into  the  Church. 

Names.  How  admitted.  When  admitted. 

*Couch,  Ira  H.  Letter.  August  6,  1842. 

Wilson,  Mrs.  Agnes  Letter  August  6,  1842. 

*McKey,  Miss  Sarah  Letter.  August  6,  1842. 

JHubbard,  Mrs.  Juliette  E.          Letter.  August  6,  1842. 

*Beaumont,  Mrs.  Esther  Letter.  August  6,  1842. 

Brown,  S.  Lockwood  Letter.  August  6,  1842. 

*Jones,  Mrs.  Frances  Letter.  August  6,  1842. 

*Whiting,  Samuel  B.  Profession.  October  15,  1842. 

*Spear,  Mrs.  Valeria  Letter.  October  15, 1842. 

*Boyer,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Letter.  October  15, 1842. 

*Tyler,  Elmer  Letter.  October  15,  1842. 

Tyler,  Mrs.  Elmer  Letter.  October  15,  1842. 

Harmon,  Miss  Sophia  Letter.  October  15,  1842. 

*Page,  Mrs.  Jane  E.  Profession.  December  27,  1842. 

Hastings,  Francis  H.  Letter.  December  27,  1842. 


*  Deceased. 

J  Dismissed  to  other  churches. 


CHURCH   BUILDINGS. 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

f  Seely,  Mrs.  Eliza  Jane 

Profession. 

January  3,  1843. 

*Taylor,  Matthias 

Letter. 

January  3,  1843. 

JTaylor,  Mrs.  Matthias 

Letter. 

January  3.  1843. 

?  Clark,  Mrs.  Letitia 

Letter. 

January  3,  1843. 

*Taylor,  Mrs.  Charles 

Letter. 

January  3,  1843. 

*Wessencraft,  Mrs.  Jane 

Letter. 

January  3,  1843. 

*Lord,  Erastus  D. 

Profession. 

April  i,  1843. 

PTaylor,  Hudson  K. 

Profession. 

April  i,  1843. 

*Meacham,  Silas 

Profession. 

April  i,  1843. 

JMeacham,  Mrs.  Rebecca 

Profession. 

April  i,  1843. 

JMeacham,  Miss  Augusta 

Profession. 

April  i,  1843. 

*Beardslee,  Mrs.  Caroline  W. 

Profession. 

April  i,  1843. 

*Ladd,  Mrs.  Mary  Jane 

Profession. 

April  i,  1843. 

*Campbell,  James 

Letter. 

April  8,  1843. 

?Campbell,  Mrs.  Jane 

Letter. 

April  8,  1843. 

*Chapin,  Mrs.  Susan 

Letter. 

April  8,  1843. 

*Kasson,  Mrs.  Melinda 

Letter. 

April  8,  1843. 

fWier,  J.  B. 

Letter. 

May  14,  1843. 

fWier,  Mrs.  J.  B. 

Letter. 

May  14,  1843. 

PLACES  OF  WORSHIP. 


7. 


The  Building  on  Randolph  Street. 

After  the  organization  of  the  Church||  was  com- 
pleted and  the  enterprise  fairly  launched,  it  became 
important  and  necessary  to  find  a  place  for  worship. 

*  Deceased. 

t  Relations  with  the  Church  dissolved. 

\  Dismissed  to  other  churches. 

?  Present  status  not  known. 

U  There  were  at  this  time  seven  organized  churches  in  the  city  besides  the  Second 
Presbyterian,  viz.:  The  First  Presbyterian  (organized  1833),  on  Clark  street,  near 
Washington  street,  fronting  east,  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  Pastor;  The  First  Baptist  (organ- 
ized 1833),  on  the  southeast  corner  of  L,a  Salle  and  Washington  streets,  Rev.  Charles  B. 
Smith,  Pastor;  The  First  or  Clark  Street  Methodist  (organized  as  a  Mission  1831), 
southeast  corner  of  Clark  and  Washington,  Rev.  N.  P.  Cunningham,  Pastor;  The  St. 
James  Episcopal  (organized  1834),  on  the  corner  of  Cass  and  Illinois  streets,  Rev. 
Isaac  N.  Hallem,  Rector;  The  Church  of  the  Messiah  (First  Unitarian,  organized  1836), 
on  Washington  street,  east  of  Clark,  fronting  south,  Rev.  Joseph  Harrington,  Pastor; 
The  First  German  Evangelical  (Evangelical  Association  organized  1840),  on  the  north- 
east corner  of  Wabash  avenue  and  Monroe  street,  Rev.  S.  F.  Wahl  and  Rev.  G.  A. 
Blank,  Pastors;  St.  Mary's  Roman  Catholic  (organized  1833),  near  the  corner  of  Lake, 
west  of  State  street .  None  of  these  churches  thought  it  would  be  necessary  to  move 
from  their  convenient  locations  for  many  years,  if  at  all. 


28  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

The  most  available  place  at  that  time  was  the  public 
hall  in  the  third  story  of  the  building  on  the  south- 
east corner  of  L,ake  and  Clark  streets,  then  known  as 
the  "  Saloon  Building."  Here  the  Church  found  a 
home  for  several  Sabbaths,  and  then  for  a  season  in 
the  Unitarian  Church,  by  invitation  of  the  trustees 
of  that  church. 

The  congregation  at  once  commenced  the  work  of 
securing  a  suitable  location  for  a  church  building. 

The  lot  selected  for  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  was  on  the  south  side  of  Randolph  street, 
eighty  feet  east  of  Clark  street.  The  work  of 
building  was  commenced  July  Qth,  and  carried  on 
until  the  completion  of  a  comfortable  and  comely 
structure,  forty  by  sixty  feet,  which  was  dedicated  to 
the  worship  of  God  on  the  I3th  of  September,  1843; 
on  the  1 4th  of  September,  Mr.  Patterson  was  or- 
dained and  installed  by  the  Presbytery  of  Ottawa. 

This  little  church  had  neither  parlor,  kitchen  nor 
cupboard ;  lecture  room,  session  room  nor  Sunday- 
school  room.  The  choir  gallery  was  between  the  two 
front  doors.  During  the  singing  the  congregation 
rose  and  turned  about,  facing  the  choir,  with  their 
backs  to  the  pulpit.  This  was  in  accordance  with 
the  custom  of  the  times,  both  Hast  and  West.  Fac- 
ing the  music  has  always  been  a  Christian  character- 
istic, and  as  the  leadership  of  the  singing  changed 
from  the  precentor  in  front  of  the  pulpit  to  the  choir 
opposite  the  pulpit  the  congregation  change'd  posi- 
tion, during  the  singing,  to  correspond.  It  was  only 
after  much  weary  discussion  that  the  churches  aban- 


CHURCH   BUILDINGS. 


doned  the  elaborate  choir  lofts  opposite  the  pulpit, 
and  adopted  the  present  desirable  arrangement  of 
having  organ  and  choir  behind  the  pulpit.  Aban- 
doned choir  galleries  are  to  be  seen  in  most  of  the 
older  church  buildings.  The  hymn  book  was  the 
Church  Psalmist,  a  collection  of  hymns  without 
accompanying  music.  There  were  times,  especially 
in  the  spring  of  1843,  when  the  mud  made  Clark  and 
Randolph  streets  quite  impassable  for  carriages.  The 
sidewalk  in  front  of  the  church  consisted  of  two  boards 
laid  lengthwise  parallel.  Many  of  the  Chicago 
sidewalks  had  but  one  board.  On  this  a  single 
person  could  walk  with  ease,  but  two  could  not 
walk  together  very  well,  even  if  agreed. 

The  thick  boards  or  logs  at  the  crossings  made 
them  passable.  Occasionally  it  required  all  the  pa- 
tience and  ingenuity  which  the  citizen  could  summon 
to  overcome  the  badness  of  the  streets.  Sometimes 
people  would  harness  a  horse  to  a  broad-wheeled  cartr 
improvise  a  seat,  drive  to  the  church,  or  as  near  as 
they  could  get  to  it,  back  the  cart  to  the  board  side- 
walk, and  so  reach  the  church  steps,  and  after  ser- 
vice would  return  home  in  the  same  way.  Public 
sentiment  sanctioned  this  primitive  mode  of  getting 
to  and  from  church  and  church  sociables.  Dr. 
Patterson,  however,  says  that  this  method  was  intro- 
duced from  Detroit,  and  that  it  was  not  the  normal 
Chicago  method  of  going  to  church  in  those  days. 

In  1843  tne  question  of  increasing  the  attendance 
came  before  the  trustees  soon  after  the  building  was 
completed.  At  the  trustees'  meeting  a  suggestion 


30  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

was  made  that  the  members  of  the  congregation  should 
take  pains  to  solicit  their  friends  to  attend  the 
Church.  At  this  juncture  Mr.  S.  B.  Cobb,  one  of  the 
trustees,  suggested  that  it  would  be  better  to  enlarge 
the  church  by  sawing  it  in  two  and  inserting  twenty 
feet.  This  plan  would  make  personal  solicitation 
unnecessary,  and  would,  in  Mr.  Cobb's  opinion,  bring 
about  the  desired  results.  Some  thought  that  it 
would  be  better  to  nil  up  such  seats  as  were 
vacant,  and  that  when  these  were  all  filled  money 
might  be  profitably  spent  in  enlarging  the  building. 
Mr.  Cobb's  counsels,  however,  prevailed,  and  the 
enlarged  place  of  worship  was  filled  as  soon  as  it 
was  ready  for  occupancy. 

In  1847  tne  building  was  again  enlarged  by  the 
addition  of  twelve  feet  to  its  length. 

The  location  was  soon  found  to  be  too  near  to  the 
center  of  business,  and  the  question  of  removal  was 
claiming  serious  consideration  when  the  last  addition 
was  made.  Business  recognized  no  ecclesiastical 
rights  or  boundaries,  and  it  was  fast  crowding 
churches  out  of  their  central  locations.  The  lot  (80 
by  170)  on  which  this  first  structure  was  built,  was 
bought  of  the  State  Bank  of  Illinois.  The  rear  90 
feet  was  sold  to  the  owners  of  the  lots  abutting  it  on 
Clark  street,  leaving  80  by  80  feet  on  Randolph 
street,  which  cost  the  Church  about  $20  per  front  foot. 
The  building,  erected  thereon  by  James  Campbell  and 
Robert  Freeman,  cost  about  $i, 600  more.  This  build- 
ing with  its  two  enlargements  was  the  home  of  the 
Church  less  than  nine  years. 


THE  SPOTTED  CHURCH. 

NORTHEAST   CORNER   WABASH    AVENUE    AND   WASHINGTON    STREET. 


CHURCH   BUILDINGS.  31 

//.     The  Spotted  Church,  Wabash  Avenue  and  Washington  Street. 

In  the  winter  of  1847  steps  were  taken  for  the 
purchase  of  another  lot.  After  due  consideration  of 
price  and  location,  the  lot  on  the  northeast  corner 
of  Wabash  avenue  and  Washington  street,  96  by 
171  feet,  was  purchased  on  "Canal  Terms,"*  of 
Julius  Wadsworth,  for  $5,000,  or  at  the  rate  of  a  little 
more  than  $52  per  front  foot.  Mr.  Wadsworth 
agreed  to  deduct  $250  from  this  price  if  all  payments 
were  promptly  made.  In  the  meantime  a  subscrip- 
tion had  been  started  for  raising  the  money  to  build 
the  church.  The  amount  subscribed  was  about 
$15,000,  which  was  thought  sufficient  to  warrant  the 
beginning  of  the  new  building.  The  population  of 
Chicago  had  meantime  increased  very  rapidly. 

The  next  question  was  an  edifice  worthy  of  the 
new  location.  A  premium  of  $100  was  offered  for  the 
best  accepted  plan.  Only  a  few  plans  were  offered, 
and  one  by  a  Chicago  architect  was  accepted  and  the 
money  paid.  A  building  committee,  consisting  of 
Messrs.  George  W.  Snow,  John  High,  Jeremiah 
Price  and  T.  B.  Carter,  was  appointed  to  superintend 
the  building.  When  the  plans  were  more  carefully 
examined,  the  committee  became  dissatisfied  with  the 
style  of  architecture  and  the  probable  strength  and 
safety  of  the  structure.  Mr.  Carter  was  going  to  the 
Hast  on  personal  business,  and  he  was  requested  to 
take  the  plans  with  him  and  consult  some  of  the 
leading  eastern  architects.  In  accordance  with  these 


*  One-fourth  cash  ;  balance  in  one,  two  and  three  years,  with  6  per  cent,  interest. 


3 2  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

instructions,  he  first  saw  a  prominent  architect  in 
Boston,  who,  upon  a  careful  examination,  pronounced 
the  plans  unsafe  and  pointed  out  the  defects.  Soon 
after  Mr.  Carter  consulted  an  architect  in  New  York 
City,  who  gave  the  same  opinion  concerning  the 
safety  of  the  proposed  building.  As  Mr.  Carter 
had  no  instructions  to  go  further,  he  prepared 
to  return  to  Chicago  and  report  to  the  committee; 
but  before  leaving  New  York  he  had  a  conver- 
sation with  Mr.  Theodore  McNamee,  one  of  the 
building  committee  for  the  Church  of  the  Pil- 
grims, then  recently  built  on  Union  Square,  New 
York,  and  stated  to  him  the  difficulties  about  the  de- 
fective plans,  and  the  need  of  better  ones.  Mr. 
McNamee,  after  finding  out  how  much  money  could 
be  put  into  the  building,  strongly  advised  the  erec- 
tion of  a  Gothic  church,  and  introduced  Mr.  Carter 
to  Mr.  James  Ren  wick,  the  architect  of  the  Church 
of  the  Pilgrims.  Mr.  Renwick  entered  into  the  work 
with  hearty  interest,  and  made  a  sketch,  with  a  care- 
ful estimate  of  the  cost,  which  was  within  the  pro- 
posed limit  of  $25,000.  At  a  meeting  of  the  con- 
gregation called  for  the  purpose,  the  sketch  was  sub- 
mitted and  accepted,  and  the  building  committee 
was  instructed  to  notify  Mr.  Renwick  of  the  action  of 
the  Society,  and  to  request  him  to  complete  the  plan, 
with  all  necessary  working  drawings. 

The  congregation  then  voted  to  build  with  the 
bituminous  limestone,  found  on  the  prairie,  about 
four  miles  northwest  of  the  Court  House  (now 
within  the  city  limits),  instead  of  with  brick  as  at 


GEO.  W.  SNOW. 


CHURCH   BUILDINGS.  33 

first  decided  on.  This  stone  was  selected  on  the 
ground  of  its  durability. 

Work  was  commenced  at  once,  under  the  superin- 
tendence of  George  W.  Snow.  Stone  was  quarried 
and  hauled  to  the  lot,  and  cut  during  the  fall  and 
winter  of  1848.  The  foundations  were  put  in  during 
the  spring  and  summer  of  1849  and  the  corner-stone 
was  laid  in  August  of  the  same  year. 

During  the  summer  of  1849  the  building  com- 
mittee secured  the  services  of  Asher  Carter,  builder 
and  architect,  of  Morristown,  N.  J.,  to  superintend 
the  future  work  on  the  structure.  Before  coming 
West  he  consulted  with  Mr.  Renwick  in  regard  to 
the  details  and  working  plans  necessary  to  complete 
the  building. 

The  work  was  pushed  forward  with  vigor  during 
the  remaining  months  of  1849,  and  through  the  year 
1850,  until  the  building  was  finished,  at  a  slight  cost 
over  the  estimates  first  made.  The  building  and  lot 
cost  something  over  $30,000.  After  the  addition  of 
the  bell  and  clock  the  total  cost  was  less  than 
$40,000. 

This  beautiful  building,  probably  the  first  Gothic 
church  erected  west  of  New  York,  was  known 
throughout  the  land  as  "  the  Spotted  Church  of  Chi- 
cago." Is  is  believed  to  have  been  the  first  specimen 
of  a  pure,  simple  Gothic  structure  ever  erected  in 
the  West.  It  was  dedicated  to  the  worship  of  God, 
on  Friday,  the  24th  of  January,  1851,  at  7  o'clock 
P.  M. 

The  Spotted  Church  was,  in  its  interior  arrange- 


34  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

ment,  very  similar  to  the  present  Church  on  Michi- 
gan avenue  and  Twentieth  street.  There  were  three 
entrances  in  front,  opening  into  a  large  vestibule,  and 
one  in  the  rear,  leading  through  a  small  vestibule 
into  the  lecture  room  and  audience  room.  Two  flights 
of  stairs,  one  through  the  large  southwest  tower,  and 
the  other  through  the  small  northwest  tower,  led  to 
the  galleries.  There  was  also  a  stairway  from  the  rear 
entrance,  leading  to  the  organ  loft  and  pastor's  study. 
There  were  three  blocks,  or  sections,  of  pews,  in 
double  rows,  on  the  main  floor,  built  in  straight  lines, 
instead  of  curved  as  now,  with  four  aisles.  The 
pews  had  doors.  There  were  two  sections,  of  four 
pews  each,  at  right  angles  with  the  body  pews,  on 
either  side  of  the  pulpit.  One  section  was  against 
the  east  wall,  and  the  other  at  the  head  of  the  outside 
tier  of  pews,  and  fronting  the  pulpit.  These  latter 
sections  had  each  a  large  double  pew — one  owned  and 
occupied  by  William  H.  Brown,  and  the  other  by 
Thomas  Dyer. 

The  roof  and  side  galleries  were  supported  by  large 
semi-clustered  wooden  columns.  The  front  or  west 
gallery  was  over  the  vestibule,  between  the  towers. 
The  nave,  or  body  of  the  church,  with  its  large  col- 
umns, Gothic  arches,  traceries  and  partly  timbered 
roof  was,  in  its  general  outline  and  beautiful  propor- 
tions, an  acknowledged  and  attractive  feature  of  the 
church.  Although  the  interior  finish  was  severely 
plain,  with  scarcely  a  moulding  or  ornament,  the 
symmetry  of  the  whole  gave  it  its  charm  and  satis- 
factory effect. 


CHURCH   BUILDINGS.  35 

The  side  and  front  windows  were  of  stained 'glass, 
made  in  New  York,  and  are  said  to  have  been  the 
handsomest  then  in  the  West. 

The  lecture  room,  seated  with  movable  settees, 
was  on  the  ground  floor,  in  the  rear  of  the  church, 
with  entrances  from  the  church  and  street,  as  before 
noted,  and  was  not  quite  as  large  as  the  one  in  the 
present  church. 

The  Sabbath-school  was  held  in  the  lecture  room, 
and  for  a  while  an  infant  class  was  taught  in  the  room 
over  the  lecture  room.  Bible  classes  were  held  in  the 
main  audience  room. 

When  the  congregation  voted  to  buy  an  organ, 
the  important  question  came  up  as  to  where  it  should 
be  placed.  The  decision  reached,  after  much  consid- 
eration, was  that  it  be  put  behind  the  pulpit,  over  the 
lecture  room,  using  the  space  occupied  by  the  infant 
class.  The  acoustic  properties  of  the  audience  room 
were  much  improved  by  this  change,  and  were  equal 
to  those  of  the  best  churches  in  the  land. 

The  bell  and  clock  were  popular  features  in 
the  equipment  of  the  church.  The  bell,  key  of  B 
flat,  large,  heavy  and  rich  in  tone,  was  a  very  im- 
portant factor  in  securing  the  prompt  attendance  of 
the  congregation  at  the  regular  services. 

The  clock  gave  its  warning  strike  when  it  was  time 
for  the  pastor  to  say,  "  In  conclusion."  Occasionally 
a  stranger  in  the  pulpit  would  prolong  his  discourse 
until  he  saw  unmistakable  evidence  that  some  of  the 
congregation  wanted  him  to  conclude,  after  the  clock 
had  finished  striking  twelve. 


36  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH.  * 

There  was  a  pastor's  study  at  the  head  of  the 
stairs,  over  the  rear  vestibule,  where  Dr.  Patterson 
prepared  many  of  his  sermons. 

The  pews  in  the  church  were  roomy,  nicely  up- 
holstered, and  very  comfortable.  But  Dr.  Patterson 
seldom  saw  any  of  his  congregation  "  nodding  as- 
sent" to  his  well-prepared  sermons. 

As  in  the  church  on  Randolph  street,  there  was 
neither  a  ladies'  parlor,  session  or  trustees'  room, 
Sunday-school  room,  infant  class  room,  library, 
kitchen,  pantry,  nor  any  of  the  other  appliances  now 
deemed  necessary  to  a  well  regulated,  modern  church. 
Yet  the  old  church  prospered  without  them,  and 
grew  to  grand  and  successful  proportions. 

Soon  after  the  purchase  of  the  lot  on  Wabash 
avenue  and  Washington  street,  the  "Canal  Trus- 
tees"* voted  to  donate  a  lot  to  each  of  the  congrega- 
tions then  established  in  the  city,  "  out  of  such  lots 
and  lands  as  remained  unsold  belonging  to,  or 
held  by,  the  said  trustees  for  the  building  of  the 
Illinois  and  Michigan  Canal." 

In  accordance  with  this  offer,  the  trustees  of  the 
Church  selected  the  lot  on  the  northwest  corner  of 
Michigan  avenue  and  Monroe  street,  76  by  162  feet,  and 
received  a  deed  therefor.  Here  many  of  the  congre- 
gation wished  the  church  to  be  built,  and  would  not 
contribute  toward  the  building  on  Wabash  avenue^  but 


*  The  Illinois  and  Michigan  Canal  was  built  under  a  grant  of  land  consisting  of 
nearly  300,000  acres,  made  in  1827  by  Congress  to  the  State.  Early  in  the  forties  the 
State  became  bankrupt;  and  as  the  canal  was  unfinished,  the  whole  canal  property 
was  placed  in  the  hands  of  three  trustees.  The  lands  granted  commenced  at  Lake 
Michigan  and  extended  along  the  Chicago  River  and  the  present  route  of  the  canal  to 
LaSalle,  and  covered  the  odd-numbered  sections  for  five  miles  on  each  side. 


JAMES  A.  SMITH. 


CHURCH   BUILDINGS. 


37 


the  large  majority  decided  that  the  lot  was  too  far  out 
of  town,  and  would  not  change  the  location  which  had 
already  been  selected. 

The  legislature  gave  the  Church  permission  to 
sell  the  lot  given  by  the  canal  trustees  on  condition 
that  it  should  not  be  subdivided  except  on  east  and 
west  lines.  This  condition  was  made  at  the  request 
of  people  who  had  handsome  residences  in  the  block, 
and  who  feared  that  a  division  on  north  and  south 
lines  would  damage  their  residence  property.  If 
dwellings  were  erected  fronting  on  Monroe  street,  the 
rear  of  the  lots  would  naturally  be  used  for  barns. 
Mr.  P.  L-  Updike's  residence  was  just  north  of 
this  lot,  and  he  bought  the  north  eight  feet  for  $250; 
Mr.  Hiram  Wheeler  bought  the  south  sixty-eight 
feet  for  $4,750;  and  the  funds  thus  obtained  were 
applied  to  the  erection  of  the  church  approaching 
completion  on  Wabash  avenue. 

On  the  completion  of  the  new  church,  the  lot  on 
Randolph  street  was  sold  to  Judge  George  Manierre, 
C.  B.  Hosmerand  M.  C.  Stearns,  for  $7,000.  After  the 
sale  of  that  lot,  the  old  building  on  Randolph  street 
was  sold  for  $2 1 1 ,  in  1 85 1 ,  to  members  of  the  Clark  St. 
M.  E.  Church,  who  moved  it  to  lots  owned  by  Orring- 
ton  Lunt,  on  the  corner  of  State  and  Harrison  streets, 
where  it  was  used  for  a  Sunday-school  and  preaching 
station,  which  formed  the  nucleus  of  the  State  St. 
Methodist  Church. 

On  the  removal  of  this  church,  afterwards  known 
as  the  Wabash  Avenue  M.  B.  Church,  to  the  corner 
of  Wabash  avenue  and  Harrison  street,  the  building 


38  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

was  sold  to  J.  Y.  Scammon,  and  was  used  by  the 
Swedenborgians,  for  several  years,  as  a  church  and 
school  building.  It  was  then  moved  to  Prairie  avenue, 
foot  of  Sixteenth  street,  where  Mr.  Scammon  fitted  it 
up  for  dwellings.  After  the  fire  a  part  of  it  was  used 
as  a  grocery  store  for  a  few  years.  It  is  now  owned 
by  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  Company,  and  is 
known  as  the  Sixteenth  street  Station,  a  reminder  of 
the  humble  beginnings  of  the  Church. 

The  Church  had  occupied  its  edifice  on  Wabash 
avenue  little  more  than  fifteen  years  when  the  ques- 
tion of  removal  again  came  to  the  front.  Wabash 
avenue  was  fast  becoming  a  great  business  thorough- 
fare ;  the  church  was  again  surrounded  by  large  whole- 
sale business  establishments,  and  the  valuable  corner 
was  wanted  for  business  purposes.  J.  V.  Farwell  & 
Co.  offered  $192,000  for  the  lot  that  twenty  years 
before  had  cost  the  Society  only  $5,000. 

The  congregation  was  divided  on  the  expediency 
of  removal,  and  the  sale  of  the  property  was  not  then 
made.  But  business  still  kept  its  onward  and  ag- 
gressive march,  and  the  question  then  uppermost 
was,  whether  trade  was  to  crowd  out  the  Church,  or  the 
Church  was  to  hold  its  own  against  the  encroachments 
of  business.  The  members  of  the  Church  and  con- 
gregation were  rapidly  removing  from  their  old 
homes  far  to  the  north  or  south,  and  some  were  al- 
ready obliged  to  sever  their  connection  with  the  old 
Church  on  account  of  its  distance  from  their  homes ; 
so  that  the  question  of  removal  was  soon  to  be  set- 


CHURCH    BUILDINGS.  39 

tied  by  circumstances  over  which  the  Church  had  no 
control. 

Meetings  were  then  held,  not  only  to  confer  about 
a  new  location,  but  to  consider  the  rights  of  the 
members  of  the  Society  in  the  property,  and  whether 
the  property  interests  could  prevent  the  removal  of 
the  Church.  At  this  juncture  a  proposition  was  in- 
troduced by  Gov.  Bross,  and  favored  by  others,  that 
the  Church  or  Society  erect  a  large  business  block  on 
the  lot,  with  suitable  rooms  for  business  purposes  on 
the  first  and  second  stories,  and  a  large  audience 
room  for  Church  purposes  on  the  third  floor.  The 
plan  contemplated  using  the  income  from  the  build- 
ings after  incumbrances  and  expenses  were  paid,  in 
aiding  the  building  of  other  Presbyterian  churches  in 
the  Northwest. 

The  principal  objection  offered  to  this  plan  of 
leaving  the  Church  down  town  and  erecting  a  block 
similar  to  the  present  Methodist  Church  block,  was, 
that  a  great  portion  of  the  Church  had  moved  to  the 
southern  part  of  the  city,  more  had  moved  south  than 
anywhere  else,  and  that  would  oblige  them  to  com- 
mence anew  and  build  themselves  a  new  Church 
entirely,  leaving  the  old  Church  property  where  it  was. 
If  the  other  Presbyterian  churches  of  the  city  at 
that  time  had  agreed  to  bear  their  proportion  of  the 
expense  of  the  proposed  down-town  Church,  leaving 
it  as  a  central  Church,  it  would  have  been  done,  but 
the  enterprise  was  rather  too  formidable  for  the 
Second  Church  to  undertake  alone. 


4O  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


///.      The  present  Church  Building,  Michigan  Avenue  and 
Twentieth  Street. 

When  it  appeared  that  this  proposition  did  not 
meet  the  views  of  a  majority  of  the  congregation,  the 
project  was  abandoned,  though  not  without  the  sin- 
cere regret  of  many  of  the  congregation.  Finally 
the  Society  came  to  a  satisfactory  understanding 
about  the  removal,  and  during  the  summer  of  1871 
the  lot  was  sold  to  Timothy  Wright  for  $161,000. 
The  Society  retained  the  ownership  of  the  building. 
A  lot  was  then  purchased  on  the  corner  of  Wabash 
avenue  and  aoth  street,  109^  feet  by  171,  for 
$38,937.50.  Plans  were  proposed  for  a  new  build- 
ing, somewhat  similar  in  style  to  the  old  one,  and  the 
excavation  for  the  foundation  was  begun. 

In  the  selection  of  this  lot  regard  was  had  to  the 
location  of  the  Olivet  Presbyterian  Church,  on  the 
southeast  corner  of  Wabash  avenue  and  i4th  street, 
so  that  the  Second  Church  should  not,  by  its  near 
proximity,  interfere  with  the  prosperity  of  that  Church; 
while  the  new  location  should  be  central  with  reference 
to  the  residence  of  its  own  members.  After  the 
location  had  been  decided  upon,  and  the  purchase 
made,  the  Olivet  Church  made  a  proposition  to  the 
Second  Church  to  unite  with  it  on  some  basis  that 
would  be  satisfactory  to  both  churches.  Committees 
were  appointed  and  after  several  conferences  an 
agreement  was  reached,  satisfactory  to  all  parties, 
as  shown  by  the  following  extract  from  the  Church 
records : 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


CORNER    MICHIGAN    AVENUE    AND   TWENTIETH    STREET. 


CHURCH    BUILDINGS.  41 

Saturday,  June  iyth,  1871. 

The  Session  met.  Present :  Dr.  Patterson  and  Messrs.  Ray- 
mond, Carter,  Gould,  High  and  Grover. 

The  Committee  appointed  at  the  last  meeting  reported  the 
following  : 

BASIS   OF    UNION    OF    THE   TWO   CHURCHES. 

The  Elders  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago 
and  of  the  Olivet  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago,  believing  that 
an  union  of  the  two  churches  would  tend  to  promote  the  temporal 
and  spiritual  interests  of  both  churches  and  would  be  for  the 
glory  of  God  and  the  advancement  of  Christ's  Kingdom,  and 
desiring  to  secure  this  end  and  object  at  as  early  a  day  as  in  the 
providence  of  God  may  be  found  practicable,  recommend  to  the 
churches  aforesaid  the  following  basis  of  Union  : 

1.  That  the  two  churches  be  consolidated  into  one  by  action 
of  the  Presbytery  of  Chicago,  to  retain  the  name  and  organiza- 
tion of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago,  the  records  of 
both  churches  to  be  preserved  by  the  Session  of  the  one  Church. 

2.  That  the  two  Sessions  be  united  on  the  basis  of  a  perma- 
nent service  of  the  eldership,  all  the  present  members  of  both 
sessions  who  have  been  elected  for  permanent  service   being 
recognized  as  members  of  the  one  Session. 

3.  That  in  order  to  effect  a  proper  arrangement  for  the  wor- 
ship and  the  Sabbath-schools  of  the  united  Church,   all  such 
matters  be  referred  to  the  united  Session. 

4.  That  in  order  to  secure  the  full  possession  and  enjoyment 
of  the  property  now  held  by  the  two  churches  and  societies  in 
their  separate  organizations  for  the  benefit  of  the  United  Church, 
and  to  preserve  the  rights  and  privileges  of  individuals  as  well 
as  to  provide  for  the  payment  of  all  debts  owed  by  either  Society, 
the  whole  subject  of    the   property   of   the   two   churches   and 
societies,  be  referred  to  their  respective  Trustees  with  the  request 
that  said  Trustees  will  take  the  necessary  steps  for  protecting 
the  property  and   interests  of  the  two  Churches  and  Societies, 
and  will  take  such  other  action  in  the  premises  as  the  circum- 
stances of  the  case  may  require. 

5.  That  it  be  and  hereby  is  expressly  understood  and  pro- 


42  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

voided  that  nothing  in  these  negotiations  or  in  this  plan  of  union 
shall  be  so  construed  as  to  alter  or  change  the  .tenure  of  prop- 
erty of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  and  Society,  or  to  disturb 
the  continuity  of  its  ecclesiastical  and  corporate  existence,  or  to- 
impair  the  validity  of  any  former  action  of  said  Church  or  Society. 

6.  That  the  trustees  of  the  Olivet  Presbyterian  Church  and 
Society  shall  hold  their  church  property  for  the  use  and  benefit 
of  the  united  Church    so   long  as   the  Session  of  said  united 
Church  may  require — provided  said  united  Church  and'  Society 
pay  or  cause  to  be  paid  the  interest  on  the  debt  as  it  matures,, 
and  such  necessary  expenses  as  are  incurred  by  holding  said 
church  property,  and  shall  sell  the  same  when  it  shall  no  longer 
be  needed  for  the  use  of  said  united  Church,  appropriating  such 
portion  of  the  avails  from  such  sale  as  may  be  required  to  can- 
cel the  debts  of  the  Society  which  they  represent,  and  paying 
over  the   residue   to  the  trustees  of   the  united   Church  and 
Society  ;  after  which  this  trust  shall  cease. 

7.  That  the  union  herein  contemplated  shall  not  go  into  effect 
without  the  concurrence  of  two-thirds  of  the  members  of  a  duly 
called  meeting  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  and  of  a  duly 
called  meeting  of  the  Olivet  Presbyterian  Church  and  Society. 

8.  That  in  case  the  requisite  vote  for  the  union  of  the  two- 
churches  shall  be  obtained,  the  two  Sessions  shall  jointly  request 
the  Presbytery  of  Chicago  to  complete  the  union  as  soon  as 
practicable,  in  accordance  with  the  terms  herein  defined. 

The  above  Basis  of  Union  was  unanimously  adopted,  and 
Mr.  Carter  was  appointed  to  get  five  hundred  copies  printed  for 
distribution.  It  was  also  voted  that  the  Church  be  called  to- 
gether on  Wednesday,  July  7th,  to  act  on  the  above. 

After  prayer,  the  Session  adjourned. 

Z.  GROVER,  Clerk. 

The  two  churches  were  united  by  the  action  of 
the  Presbytery  of  Chicago  on  the  i8th  of  September, 
1871,  to  be  known  by  the  name  of  the  Second  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  Chicago.  The  Great  Fire  of  the 
8th  and  Qth  of  October,  1871,  destroyed  the  beautiful 


CHURCH  BUILDINGS.  43 

"Spotted  Church,"  with  its  organ,  bell,  clock  and 
furniture,  and  Wabash  avenue,  from  the  river  to  22nd 
street,  began  at  once  to  be  transformed  into  a  busi- 
ness street. 

The  lot  on  the  corner  of  Wabash  avenue  and  aoth 
street  was  then  exchanged  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lean- 
der  Read  for  one  of  the  same  size  on  the  corner  of 
Michigan  avenue  and  2Oth  street,  for  which  the 
Society  paid  $20,000  difference.  Many  favored  build- 
ing on  Wabash  avenue,  even  after  the  fire,  and  the 
change  of  location  was  not  carried  by  a  very  large 
majority.  Many  people  lived  on  Wabash  avenue, 
north  of  22nd  street,  which  was  still  a  very  desirable 
location,  and  Michigan  avenue  was  not  a  very  good 
street  then.* 

New  plans  were  now  prepared  by  Messrs.  James 
Renwick  and  John  Addison  of  New  York,  which, 
after  some  modification  by  Mr.  Addison,  were 
accepted  by  the  Society.  Contracts  for  the  building 
were  let  to  Wm.  Hinchcliffe  &  Son  for  the  stone  work, 
and  to  Mr.  M.  B.  Swezey  for  the  carpenter  work. 

The  Society  had  by  vote  decided  to  use  the  stone 
from  the  same  quarry  from  which  the  old  church 
was  built.  The  building  committee,  appointed  by 
the  Society  to  superintend  the  construction,  con- 
sisted of  Messrs.  George  Armour,  N.  S.  Bouton,  John 
S.  Gould,  Charles  P.  Kellogg  and  T.  B.  Carter. 

After  the  fire  the  trustees  collected  the  insurance 
on  the  old  church,  and  the  stone  became  th^e  property 

*  Michigan  avenue,  south  of  I2th  street,  had  never  been  paved.  In  1879  it  was  turned 
over  to  the  care  of  the  South  Park  Commissioners,  who  put  in  the  present  extensive 
improvements. 


44  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

of  Mr.  Wright,  the  purchaser  of  the  lot,  who  removed 
it  to  Winnetka  with  the  intention  of  building  a 
church  to  the  memory  of  his  mother,  who  was  one  of 
the  original  members  of  the  Second  Church.  For 
various  reasons,  however,  the  church  was  not  built, 
and  later  the  stone  became  the  property  of  Mr.  J. 
Hall  McCormick,  who  removed  it  to  Lake  Forest,  with 
the  intention  of  using  it  for  a  dwelling ;  but  changing 
his  plans,  he  sold  it  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Lake  Forest,  and  from  it  their  new 
and  beautiful  church,  dedicated  on  the  loth  of  June, 
1887,  was  entirely  constructed. 

Dr.  Patterson,  who  laid  the  corner-stone  of  the 
church  on  Wabash  avenue  and  of  the  one  on  Michi- 
gan avenue,  and  who  dedicated  all  of  the  three  churches 
to  their  holy  uses,  delivered  the  address  at  the  dedi- 
cation of  the  Lake  Forest  Church. 

The  stone,  precious  to  the  members  of  the  old 
Church,  still  retains  much  of  its  original  and 
peculiar  beauty,  and  it  is  hoped,  will  long  remain,  not 
only  as  a  memento  of  the  past,  which  has  been  so  full 
of  encouragement  and  hope  and  achievement  in  the 
work  of  the  Second  Church,  but  also  as  a  source  of 
pleasure  to  the  members  of  the  Church  of  which  it 
forms  so  important  a  part ;  and  to  the  citizens  of  that 
beautiful  suburb,  so  many  of  whom  were  once  mem- 
bers of  the  Second  Church  of  Chicago. 

Though  the  stone  for  the  church  on  Michigan 
avenue  is  from  the  same  quarry  of  bituminous  lime- 
stone from  which  the  stone  for  the  church  on  Wash- 
ington street  was  taken,  it  is  quarried  at  a  greater 


CHURCH   BUILDINGS.  45 

depth,  and  the  black  bituminous  spots  are  much 
less  prominent.  In  repairing  the  spire  (in  June, 
1892)  a  course  of  freshly  quarried  stone  had  to 
be  laid.  In  this  course  of  stone  it  is  noticed  that  the 
"  spotted"  effect  is  almost  entirely  wanting. 

Work  on  the  church,  corner  Michigan  avenue  and 
2Oth  street,  was  commenced  at  once,  and  the  founda- 
tion put  in  as  early  as  possible  in  the  spring  of  1872. 
The  corner-stone  was  laid  with  appropriate  services 
on  the  2ist  of  September,  1872. 

During  the  period  of  building,  the  congregation 
occupied  the  Olivet  Church,  which  had  so  recently 
united  with  it.  The  property  of  this  Church  remained 
under  control  of  its  own  trustees,  until  it  was  sold 
by  them,  in  the  summer  of  1872,  to  the  Wabash 
Avenue  M.  H.  Church.  After  paying  its  mortgage 
indebtedness,  the  trustees  of  the  Olivet  Church  paid 
to  the  trustees  of  the  Second  Church  about  $10,000 
toward  the  erection  of  their  new  building.  The  cost 
of  the  present  church  property,  including  organ, 
furniture,  tower  and  bell,  is  about  $360,000. 

The  Church  held  its  first  services  in  the  Sunday- 
school  room  of  its  new  building  on  Sunday  morning, 
January  5th,  1873,  and  on  the  following  Sunday 
morning  (the  i2th)  celebrated  the  first  communion 
in  the  new  lecture  room.  The  main  audience  room 
was  sufficiently  advanced  to  be  used  for  public  wor- 
ship on  Sunday,  November  3Oth,  1873.  Dr  .  Patter- 
son preached  his  farewell  sermon  there  on  Sunday 
evening,  January  nth,  1874,  from  Philippians,  ist 


46  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

chapter,  8th  to  nth  verses — "  For  God  is  my  record, 
how  greatly  I  long  after  you  all  in  the  bowels  of 
Jesus  Christ. 

11  And  this  I  pray,  that  your  love  may  abound  yet 
more  and  more  in  knowledge  and  in  all  j  udgment ; 

"  That  ye  may  approve  things  that  are  excellent; 
that  ye  may  be  sincere  and  without  offence  till  the 
day  of  Christ ; 

"Being  filled  with  the  fruits  of  righteousness, 
which  are  by  Jesus  Christ,  unto  the  glory  and  praise 
of  God." 

After  the  death  of  Mr.  George  Armour,  June  I3th, 
1 88 1,  Mrs.  Armour  authorized  Mr.  Norman  Wil- 
liams to  complete  the  tower  *  and  spire,  in  memory  of 
her  husband.  The  children  of  Mr.  Armour,  with 
similar  generosity,  authorized  Mr.  Williams  to  pro- 
cure a  bell,*  which  was  first  rung  on  the  afternoon  of 
June  a6th,  1884. 

The  finished  structure  now  stands  complete.  A 
beautiful  monument  of  the  generosity  of  the  Church 
and  Society,  and  a  memorial  of  the  liberality  of  the 
family  of  Mr.  George  Armour,  who  before  his  death 
had  contributed  so  generously  to  the  benevolences  of 
the  Church  as  well  as  to  the  building  and  to  its  gen- 
eral expenses. 

Two  memorial  tablets  are  placed  in  the  south  en- 
trance, at  the  base  of  the  main  tower,  inscribed  as 
follows: 


*Hight  of  tower  from  sidewalk  to  top  of  the  St.  Andrew's  Cross,  199^  feet. 
Bell,  key  of  D  flat,  weighs  4101  pounds.  It  bears  on  one  side  a  metnorial  inscription, 
setting  forth  the  donors;  on  the  other  from  Psalms: 

"  Make  a  joyful  noise  uuto  the  Lord, 
Make  a  loud  noise,  and  rejoice." 


CHURCH    BUILDINGS. 


47 


THIS  •  TOWER  •  HAS  '  BEEN  '  COMPLETED 
TO  •  THE  •  GLORY  •  OF  •  GOD 

AND 
IN  •  LOVING  •  MEMORY  •  OF 

GEORGE  '  ARMOUR 

BY  •  HIS  •  WIDOW 
A  '  D  •  MDCCCLXXXIV. 

A  '  GOOD  '  MAN— A  •  LOVING  HUSBAND 
A  '  WISE  '  FATHER— A  •  FAITHFUL  '  FRIEND. 

BORN  '  IN  '  CAMPBELTOWN  •  SCOTLAND 

A  •  RESIDENT  •  OF  •  THIS  •  CITY  •  FORTY  •  YEARS 

HE  '  FELL  '  ASLEEP  •  JUNE  •  13  '  1881. 


"  THE  •  RIGHTEOUS  •  LIVE  •  FOR  •  EVERMORE. 
THEIR  •  REWARD  •  ALSO  •  IS  •  WITH  •  THE  •  LORD, 
AND  •  THE  •  CARE  •  OF  •  THEM  •  IS  •  WITH  •  THE 
MO8T  •  HIGH." 


THINE  '  OWN  *  FRIEND  •  AND  •  THY  •  FATHER'S  •  FRIEND  •  FORSAKE  •  NOT. 

The  family  of  George  Armour  places  this 
Tablet  here  to  thankfully  perpetuate  the  untiring 
attention  •  the  painstaking  care  &  the  loving  labour 
which  their  esteemed  friend  Norman  Williams 
gave  to  the  completipn  of  this  tower,  1884 

Architect  John  Addison 


PASTORS. 


I.    REV.  ROBERT  W.  PATTERSON,  D.D. 

the  .first  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church, 
was  born  in  1814,  near  Maryville,  Blount  county, 
Bast  Tennessee.  His  parents  were  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  at  Maryville,  where  the  College 
now  is.  Dr.  Anderson  was  pastor  of  the  Maryville 
Church  at  that  time,  and  Dr.  Patterson  was  baptized 
there.  At  an  early  age  Dr.  Patterson  moved,  with 
his  parents  to  Illinois,  and  located  in  what  is  now 
known  as  Reno,  in  Bond  county,  where  he  spent  the 
period  of  his  boyhood.  He  had  early  impressions  on 
religious  matters,  but  did  not  unite  with  the  Church 
until  his  eighteenth  year,  when  he  joined  the  Bethel 
(now  Reno)  Church.  This  Church  still  exists,  though 
not  without  having  passed  through  many  severe 
struggles.  It  has  been  a  most  earnest  Church  and 
has  done  an  excellent  work. 

From  its  limited  membership  no  less  than  twenty- 
six  young  men  have  entered  the  ministry.  A  year 
ago  this  Church  was  in  need  of  funds,  and  was  dis- 
appointed in  not  receiving  an  appropriation  from  the 
Church  Erection  Committee.  When  the  circum- 
stance came  to  the  knowledge  of  the  Session  of  the 
Second  Church,  an  appropriation  was  immediately 
made  which  relieved  it  from  embarrassment. 

Soon  after  making  a  public  profession  of  religion, 

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PASTORS.  49 

Dr.  Patterson  resolved  to  study  for  the  ministry,  and 
went  from  Reno  to  Illinois  College  at  Jacksonville, 
which  was  conducted  first  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Presbyterians,  and  later  of  the  Presbyterians  and 
Congregationalists.  After  the  completion  of  his  pre- 
liminary studies  at  Illinois  College,  where  he  took 
the  preparatory  course  as  well  as  the  collegiate 
course,  he  went  in  1837  to  Lane  Seminary  in  Cincin- 
nati to  study  theology  under  Dr.  Lyman  Beecher  and 
other  professors,  and  remained  there  two  years.  At 
the  end  of  the  two  years,  he  was  asked  to  return  to 
his  alma  mater  and  acted  as  tutor  there  for  one  year 
during  the  absence  of  the  President. 

He  was  then  invited  to  come  to  Chicago  to  the 
First  Church  to  supply  its  pulpit  during  the  sum- 
mer of  1840,  after  which  he  returned  to  the  Seminary 
and  spent  the  winter  of  1840-41  as  resident  licentiate. 

When  the  Second  Church  was  organized  he  was 
unanimously  called  to  be  its  pastor,  and  discharged 
the  constantly  increasing  duties  of  his  office  for  nearly 
thirty-two  years. 

Dr.  Patterson  has  the  unusual  distinction  of  hav- 
ing practically  begun  and  completed  the  great  work 
of  a  life  in  one  place.  Distinctly  a  western  man  in 
birth  and  education,  he  grew  with  the  growth  of  the 
city  and  of  the  Church,  and  now  crowned  with  full- 
ness of  years  he  is,  as  he  was  from  the  first,  an  au- 
thority on  all  matters  ecclesiastical.  In  the  early 
days  of  the  Church,  when  a  conservative  man  was 
more  than  likely  to  make  enemies  on  both  sides,  he 
stood  radically  firm,  an  apostle  of  liberty  and  of  law, 


5O  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

but  above  all  of  Christ.  The  plans  of  those  who 
would  have  substituted  another  form  of  government 
for  our  churches,  or  who  would  have  had  them 
bodily  secede  from  their  established  ecclesiastical 
relations,  were  shown  to  be  undesirable  by  his  con- 
siderate wisdom,  bold  avowal  of  what  he  believed  to 
be  duty,  and  prompt  action. 

While  yet  a  licentiate  he  stood  with  two  ministers, 
as  the  Presbytery,  and  refused  to  enter  into  an 
arrangement  which  would  have  proved,  at  best,  of 
doubtful  value  to  the  cause  of  Christ,  for  which  he 
labored  first  and  last. 

Dr.  Patterson  has  always  been  deeply  interested 
in  Chicago  as  a  city.  In  speaking  of  his  early  im- 
pressions of  Chicago,  .he  says :  "  When  I  came  to 
Chicago,  in  1840,  although  it  was  a  small  place  of 
only  forty-three  hundred,  it  was  the  largest  place  in 
the  State.  There  was  no  other  town  of  equal  popu- 
lation in  this  State. 

I  was  familiar  with  other  large  cities,  such  as  Cin- 
cinnati and  St.  Louis,  but  there  was  no  city  in  the 
State  of  Illinois  that  was  as  large — indeed,  in  Illinois, 
in  1840,  there  was  no  city  except  Chicago.  I 
thought  it  was  a  growing  place  and  would  be  import- 
ant some  day,  and  even  thought  it  might,  at  some 
time,  contain  a  population  of  from  forty  to  fifty  thou- 
sand, based  upon  the  growth  of  places  like  Cincinnati 
and  St.  Louis.  At  an  earlier  date  it  was  thought 
that  Michigan  City  or  Racine  would  perhaps  surpass 
Chicago.  Milwaukee  claimed  to  be  a  rival  of  Chicago 


MRS.   R.  W.   PATTERSON. 


PASTORS.  5 1 


some  years  before  I  came  to  Chicago ;  but  in  a  very 
few  years  that  rivalry  ceased." 

Chicago,  more  than  any  other  city  in  America,  has 
been  made  by  the  character  of  its  men.  The  same 
men  could  probably  have  made  as  great  a  city,  with 
less  effort,  in  some  other  location  within  a  hundred 
miles  of  the  present  city  limits.  No  less  gratitude 
is  due  the  men  of  spirit  who  made  Chicago  a  city  of 
churches  and  a  centre  from  which  should  go  forth 
strong  Christian  influences,  than  to  those  who  devel- 
oped the  great  commercial  possibilities  of  the  situa- 
tion. Of  the  former,  Dr.  Patterson  stands  easily 
first,  from  the  length  of  his  service,  but  much  more 
from  the  quality  of  that  service.  As  a  citizen,  he 
rejoiced  in  municipal  prosperity;  as  a  preacher  of 
sound  doctrine,  he  kept  his  Church  steady ;  as  a 
pastor,  he  realized  the  ideal  of  a  true  pastor's 
life  when  he  saw  the  children,  to  whose  parents 
he  had  ministered,  coming  as  a  matter  of  course 
into  the  Church.  As  he  finds  upon  the  rolls  of 
the  Church  another  generation,  given  to  Christ,  a 
generation  whose  grandparents  live  in  his  memory 
as  parishoners  in  the  first  decades  of  the  Church,  he 
sees  how  fully  his  work  has  been  blessed.  So  truly 
is  immortality  assured  to  us  even  here,  living  forever 
as  our  influence  does  in  the  lives  of  the  descendants 
of  those  in  whose  presence  we  ourselves  have  lived. 

But  not  only  as  preacher  and  pastor  were  his 
energies  engaged  and  his  influence  felt.  No  im- 
portant measure  connected  with  Presbyterianism  in 
the  United  States  failed  to  receive  his  careful  atten- 


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52  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

tion  aud  to  be  influenced  by  his  conservative  spirit. 
The  denominational  difficulties  which  resulted  from 
the  partial  union  of  Congregationalists  and  Presby- 
terians in  the  West  in  early  days  were  simplified  by  his 
calm  counsel.  The  asperities  of  the  political  issues  of 
the  greater  part  of  his  ministry  were  at  least  a  little 
softened  by  the  stand  which  he  took — firm  in  main- 
taining what  he  believed  to  be  the  proprieties  and 
amenities  of  Christian  living,  yet  never  swerving  in 
his  fidelity  to  the  principles  of  liberty. 

It  has  happened  to  few  men  to  see  so  fully  the 
fruitage  of  that  which  they  themselves  have  planted ; 
and  it  is  the  wish  of  all  who  know  our  first  pastor 
that  many  years  of  continued  health  and  vigor  may 
be  permitted  to  him  by  the  kindness  of  that  Provi- 
dence which  has  so  manifestly  guided  him  for  now 
nearly  eighty  useful  years. 

Dr.  Patterson  resigned  his  pastorate  to  accept  the 
Professorship  of  Evidences  and  Ethics  in  the  North- 
western (now  the  McCormick)  Theological  Seminary. 
He  is  still  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Presbytery,  and 
resides  at  Evanston,  111. 

On  his  retirement  from  the  pastorate  the  congre- 
gation established  for  him  a  fund,  in  honor  of  his  long 
and  useful  labors. 

On  Monday  evening,  January  2ist,  1884,  the 
Church  and  congregation  gave  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Patter- 
son a  reception  in  the  church,  on  the  occasion  of  the 
seventieth  anniversary  of  his  birthday,  at  which  large 
numbers  of  the  old  members  of  the  Church,  and  of 
the  old  and  young  friends  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Patterson 


PASTORS.  53 

came  to  pay  them  their  loving  and  respectful  regards. 
Dr.  Patterson  is  held  in  most  affectionate  esteem 
by  all  who  have  had  the  privilege  of  knowing  him ; 
and  he  is  honored  throughout  the  whole  of  our  coun- 
try for  learning,  kindness,  prudence,  and  fidelity  to 
Christ.  He  has  very  fitly  been  called  the  "Nestor 
of  Presbyterianism  in  the  Northwest." 

II.     REV.  J.  MONRO  GIBSON,  D.D. 

After  the  resignation  of  Dr.  Patterson,  the  Church 
at  once  set  about  the  responsible  work  of  securing  a 
new  pastor ;  committees  were  appointed,  many  locali- 
ties were  visited,  and  much  correspondence  was  had, 
in  connection  with  this  delicate  and  important 
duty.  It  was  a  new  experience  for  the  now  old 
Second  Church  to  be  in  the  field  seeking  a  man  for 
the  pastoral  office,  after  having  been  so  faithfully  and 
continuously  served  by  Dr.  Patterson. 

While  the  Church  was  thus  seeking  a  pastor, 
Prof.  F.  W.  Fisk,  of  the  Chicago  Theological  Semi- 
nary, was  engaged  to  fill  the  pulpit,  which  he  did  to 
the  great  satisfaction  of  the  congregation. 

About  this  time  the  attention  of  the  Church  was 
called  to  the  Rev.  J.  Monro  Gibson,  assistant  pastor 
of  St.  Andrew's  Presbyterian  Church  of  Montreal, 
Canada.  A  committee,  consisting  of  Elders  J.  S. 
Gould  and  T.  B.  Carter,  was  sent  to  visit  him.  The 
report  which  they  brought  back  caused  a  call  to  be 
extended  to  Mr.  Gibson,  which  Messrs.  J.  S.  Gould 
and  N.  S.  Bouton  were  deputized  to  present  to  him 
personally.  After  due  consideration  of  the  matter, 


54  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

Mr.  Gibson  promised  to  come  to  Chicago  to  look  over 
the  ground.  He  came  as  promised,  and  preached  on 
Sunday,  February  i/j-th,  1874. 

At  another  meeting  of  the  congregation,  the  call 
was  renewed  and  accepted  by  Mr.  Gibson  on  the  con- 
dition of  release  from  his  Church  by  the  Presbytery. 
This  release  was  granted,  and  he  moved  to  Chicago 
in  April  of  the  same  year.  He  preached  his  first 
sermon  as  "pastor-elect"  April  26th,  1874,  and  was 
installed  May  6th,  and  commenced  his  successful 
work  under  most  favorable  auspices.  The  Church 
prospered  greatly  under  his  ministry,  both  in  its  re- 
ligious and  benevolent  work.  He  proved  himself  to 
be  a  gifted,  spiritual,  and  persuasive  preacher,  and  a 
most  devoted  and  acceptable  pastor.  During  his  pas- 
torate here  he  delivered  in  Farwell  Hall  a  series  of 
extremely  popular  and  valuable  lectures  on  the 
Bible,  which  were  afterwards  published  as  books. 
After  six  years  of  arduous  and  capable  devotion  to 
the  Second  Church,  and  to  the  cause  of  Christ  in 
Chicago,  he  accepted,  in  1880,  the  call  of  St.  John's 
Wood  Presbyterian  Church,  London,  England,  where 
he  is  still  in  service.  Dr.  Gibson  was  deeply  loved 
in  this  Church  and  community  on  account  of  his  emi- 
nently social  disposition  and  of  his- noble  Christian 
character.  He  left  here  many  friends  whom  he 
was  the  means  of  leading  into  the  blessed  experi- 
ences of  the  Gospel.  As  pastor,  preacher,  lecturer, 
author  and  ecclesiastical  leader,  he  has  been  highly 
favored  during  the  past  dozen  years  on  the  other  side 
of  the  sea. 


PASTORS.  55 


III.    REV.  SIMON  J.  McPHERSON,  D.D. 

The  Church  remained  for  two  and  a  half  years 
without  a  pastor  after  Dr.  Gibson  went  to  London. 
During  this  long  interval  the  Church  kept  up  its 
weekly  and  Sabbath  services,  its  mission  schools  and 
its  benevolent  contributions.  It  was  remarked  by 
one  of  the  prominent  pastors  at  a  meeting  of  Pres- 
bytery, that,  though  the  Second  Church  had  no  pas- 
tor, it  continued  to  give  its  full  share  to  the  benevo- 
lent and  missionary  work  of  the  Church. 

In  September,  1882,  a  call  was  extended  to  Rev. 
Simon  J.  McPherson,  who  had  been  for  three  years  pas- 
tor of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  East  Orange, 
N.J. 

Dr.  McPherson  was  born  in  Mumford,  New 
York,  in  1850.  His  boyhood  was  spent  on  his 
father's  farm,  where,  amidst  simple  and  wholesome 
influences,  he  was  trained  by  devout  Christian 
parents,  who  delighted  by  their  own  self-sacrifice  to 
promote  the  intellectual  development  of  their  children. 
He  attended  the  district  school  until  the  age  of 
fifteen,  and  then  prepared  at  the  Academy  at  Le  Roy, 
N.  Y.,  and  at  Falley  Seminary,  Fulton,  N.  Y.,  for 
Princeton  College.  In  God's  providence,  a  severe 
illness  during  his  college  course  brought  him  into 
very  close  relations  with  Dr.  McCosh  and  his  gentle 
partner,  and  by  their  gracious  interest  and  daily 
ministrations,  the  object  for  which  his  parents  had 
toiled  and  prayed  was  confirmed,  and  the  college 
student  determined  to  study  for  the  Christian  min- 


56  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

istry.  After  graduating  in  1874,  Dr.  McPherson 
served  as  tutor  for  one  year  in  the  college.  In  1875 
lie  entered  Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1879.  While  a  theolog- 
ical student  he  spent  a  year  and  a  quarter  in  Kuro- 
pean  travel  and  study,  and  visited  the  Holy  Land. 
As  the  third  pastor  of  this  Church  he  has  proved 
himself  worthy  of  the  succession  in  which  he  stands. 
Matured  by  study,  teaching,  and  travel,  before  enter- 
ing upon  his  first  pastorate,  he  began  the  exacting 
career  of  a  Chicago  clergyman  with  an  equipment 
which  has  made  him  prompt  to  answer  every  demand 
made  upon  him.  Gifted  beyond!'  most  men  as  a 
preacher  of  Christ,  the  power  which  his  eloquence  in 
the  pulpit  has  exerted  has  not  surpassed  that  which 
has  come  from  the  teachings  of  his  daily  life.  To 
the  sick  and  the  afflicted  his  words  have  not  been  those 
of  formal  condolence,  but  of  hearty  Christian  sym- 
pathy; to  those  who  were  troubled  about  many 
things,  he  has  ever  been  a  wise  and  safe  counsel- 
lor ;  while  to  those  who  were  anxiously  inquiring  the 
way  of  Life,  he  has  been  a  gentle  but  reassuring 
guide.  The  younger  members  of  the  congregation 
recognized  him  at  once  as  a  sympathizing  friend,  and 
the  older  ones  have  approve4  the  maturity  of  his 
judgment  and  the  vigor  of  his  action.  Under  his 
pastorate  the  Church  has  continued  to  be  blessed,  in 
the  number  of  those  who  have  come  into  its  com- 
munion, in  the  fidelity  with  which  they  have  held  to 
the  Christian  life,  and  in  the  influence  which  it  has 


PASTORS.  57 

thus  been  able  to  exert  in  the  community  and  in  the 
world. 

While  this  is  not  the  time  to  go  into  the  detail  of 
a  pastorate  which  all  hope  is  only  in  its  beginning, 
it  would  certainly  be  an  abuse  of  opportunity  not  to 
bear  testimony  to  his  usefulness  and  to  his  tireless 
industry  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  welfare  of  the 
Church  or  of  the  individuals  which  compose  it,  as  well 
as  to  the  goodness  of  God  in  giving  to  this  Church 
three  such  useful  pastors  as  those  who,  in  His  provi- 
dence, have  ministered  to  it.  May  the  coming  years 
continue  to  bless  and  deepen  the  happy  relations  be- 
tween this  beloved  pastor  and  his  loving  people. 


THE  SESSION. 


In  the  election  of  Benjamin  W.  Raymondr 
William  H.  Brown,  and  Dr.  Sylvester  Willard  as  its 
first  elders,  the  Church  gave  expression  to  its 
opinion  of  the  kind  of  person  an  elder  should  be. 
With  this  expression,  and  also  with  the  idea  of 
permanency,  there  followed  in  the  Session  the  feel- 
ing of  true  Christian  fellowship  in  all  Church 
work;  for  never  was  there  a  Church  and  Session 
more  closely  bound  together  by  these  holy  bonds 
of  Christian  fellowship  than  have  been  the  mem- 
bers and  elders  of  the  Second  Church.  Import- 
ant questions  have  always  been  discussed  by  the 
Session  in  the  kindest  spirit,  and  the  decisions  reached 
have  carried  with  them  the  unanimous  approval  of 
the  Session,  in  spite  of  mere  personal  difference  of 
opinion  as  to  policy.  The  records  show  that  in  no 
question  involving  principle  has  the  Session  cast  a 
divided  vote. 

Monthly  meetings  of  the  elders  with  their  wives, 
begun  soon  after  the  organization  of  the  Church,  and 
held  during  the  fall,  winter  and  spring  months,  became 
an  important  factor  in  the  efficiency  and  unity  of  the 
Session.  These  meetings  were  continued  for  more 
than  forty  years,  and  will  always  be  remembered  with 


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THE   SESSION.  59 


interest  and  pleasure  by  those  who  participated  in 
them. 

With  the  aid  of  these  elect  women,  many  import- 
ant plans  for  the  greater  efficiency  of  the  Church  and 
Session  were  proposed,  discussed  and  adopted.  And 
so  it  came  to  pass  that  instead  of  obeying  the  injunc- 
tion of  Paul  to  "help  these  women,"  the  women 
became  the  true  helpers  of  the  Session  in  much  of 
the  Church  work. 

Of  the  first  three  elders,  the  one  first  chosen  to 
represent  the  Church  in  our  ecclesiastical  courts,  Mr. 
Brown,  was  the  first  to  pass  away.  He  died  peace- 
fully, in  the  full  assurance  of  faith,  June  iQth,  1867, 
in  the  seventy-second  year  of  his  age,  at  Amsterdam, 
Holland,  whither  he  and  his  wife  had  gone  to  enjoy 
some  of  the  benefits  of  European  residence  and 
travel.  Mr.  Brown's  death  was  sadly  felt  by  the 
Church,  which  had  for  a  quarter  of  a  century 
received  his  valuable  counsel  and  aid.  To  no  one 
man  was  the  Church  more  indebted  for  its  early 
success.  Few  men  gave  more  liberally  in  proportion 
to  their  means  for  building  the  church  and  sustaining 
its  expenses  and  benevolences.  Mr.  Brown  was 
clerk  of  the  Session  for  nearly  twenty-four  years,  or 
until  he  went  abroad,  and  the  records  show  how 
diligent  and  careful  he  was  in  the  performance  of  this 
duty.  His  remains  were  brought  home  to  his  native 
land  and  buried  at  Graceland. 

Mr.  Raymond  was  the  next  to  leave  us.  He  de- 
parted this  life  in  his  own  home,  surrounded  by  mem- 
bers of  his  family,  April  5th,  1883,  aged  82.  It  can 


60  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

be  truly  said  of  Mr.  Raymond,  that  a  more  conscien- 
tious and  benevolent  man  did  not  belong  to  the 
Church,  nor  one  who  so  seldom  let  his  left  hand  know 
what  his  right  hand  had  done.  Of  him  Dr.  Patter- 
son says  :  "  His  benevolence  was  wonderful,  both  in 
practice  as  well  as  in  feeling.  He  was  about  the  only 
person  I  ever  knew  whom  I  felt  it  necessary  'to  re- 
strain in  the  matter  of  giving,  because  he  was  so 
good  in  heart  that  he  could  hardly  refrain  from  giv- 
ing far  more  than  necessary  and  sometimes  would 
give  beyond  his  ability." 

Mr.  Raymond,  as  trustee  and  elder  in  the 
Church,  and  as  a  man  of  great  and  always  good 
influence  in  the  community,  was  well  known  to  all 
Chicagoans.  He  erected  the  second  brick  building  in 
the  city,  and  was  active  and  among  the  foremost  in  the 
early  enterprises  of  the  Northwest ;  to  his  influence 
largely  the  public  owes  the  first  railroad  in  Illinois, 
the  old  Galena  Road.  He  was  one  of  the  principal 
originators  of  the  Elgin  National  Watch  Company ; 
was  one  of  the  directors  of  the  first  water  works  in 
Chicago,  the  old  Hydraulic  Company; '  was  one  of 
the  incorporators  of  the  Chicago  Gas-light  and  Coke 
Company ;  and  held  many  positions  in  the  early 
public  educational  and  benevolent  institutions  in 
the  city.  He  secured  the  charter  for  the  Lake 
Forest  University,  and  in  1839  was  elected  third 
mayor  of  Chicago,  in  1842  was  re-elected.  He 
secured  the  Lake  Front  Park  as  a  gift  from  the 
United  States  Government  to  Chicago,  and  succeeded 
in  inaugurating  the  system  of  wide  streets,  which 


REUBEN   D.  JONES. 


THE   SESSION.  6l 


have  done  so  much  for  the  health  and  safety  and 
beauty  of  the  city.  Hardly  any  other  name  appears 
oftener  in  the  days  of  the  early  history  of  the  city. 

An  upright,  honorable  merchant,  who  had  borne 
his  full  share  of  municipal  honors  and  of  the  respon- 
sibilities pertaining  to  the  growth  and  development  of 
of  our  young  city,  he  left  us  in  the  ripeness  of  age, 
honored  by  a  large  circle  of  relatives  and  friends, 
who  carried  his  remains  and  buried  them  at  Grace- 
land,  near  the  grave  of  his  almost  life-long  friend, 
William  H.  Brown. 

Dr.  Sylvester  Willard — the  last  of  these  three 
worthies  to  pass  away — removed  from  Chicago  to 
Auburn,  New  York,  in  1843,  after  having  served  this 
Church  as  an  elder,  and  the  Sabbath-school  as  its 
superintendent  for  one  brief  year.  But  he  had  served 
the  Church  long  enough  to  impress  upon  it  the  value 
of  his  services,  in  these  responsible  positions. 
His  worth  was  not  mistaken,  when  he  was  chosen 
to  represent  the  Church,  in  the  eldership'  and  in  the 
Sabbath-school. 

His  subsequent  life,  in  the  beautiful  town  where 
he  made  his  home,  and  his  connections  with  the 
Church  there,  of  which  he  was  long  an  honored  elder, 
proved  the  eminent  value  of  his  services. 

His  gifts  to  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Au- 
burn, and  to  the  cause  of  the  Church  as  a  whole, 
were  munificent,  and  showed  the  strong  religious  prin- 
ciple and  the  true  theory  of  Stewardship  that  influ- 
enced his  life.  He  died  as  he  had  lived,  peacefully 
and  happily,  surrounded  by  the  members  of  his  fami- 


62  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

ly,  at  Auburn,  March  i2th,  1886,  in  the  eighty- 
eighth  year  of  his  age ;  ending  a  noble  Christian  life 
full  of  years  in  all  its  ripeness  and  maturity — like  as 
a  shock  of  corn  cometh  in  in  his  season. 

After  Dr.  Willard  removed  from  Chicago,  the 
Church  elected,  April  5th,  1843,  as  ruling  elders, 
John  C.  Williams  and  Seth  Johnson.  Capt.  Johnson 
removed  from  the  city  in  1845,  an(^  died  about  the 
year  1865. 

Mr.  Williams,  a  model  Christian  merchant, 
died  December  ist,  1865,  in  h*8  fifty-eighth  year, 
after  having  given  the  Church  more  than  twenty 
years  of  faithful  and  valuable  service.  His  works 
show  his  faithful  discharge  of  duty  as  a  Steward  of 
God. 

On  the  removal  of  Capt.  Johnson,  the  Church  in 
September,  1845,  elected  Thomas  B.  Carter  to  fill  his 
place. 

In  April,  1848,  J.  Ambrose  Wight  was  chosen 
elder,  and  served  the  Church  in  that  capacity 
until  1856,  when  he  was  ordained  to  the  Gospel 
Ministry  by  the  Presbytery  of  Chicago,  and  be- 
came the  successful  pastor  of  the  Olivet  Presby- 
terian Church,  which  was  organized  that  same 
year,  with  which  he  remained  until  December,  1864. 
He  then  removed  to  Bay  City,  Michigan,  to  assume 
the  pastorate  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  there.  He 
died  at  his  home  in  Bay  City,  Michigan,  November 
1 2th,  1889,  aged  seventy-eight  years,  having  filled 
the  pulpit  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  there  with 
great  acceptance  and  success  for  nearly  twenty-five 


THE   SESSION..  63 


years.  His  remains  were  brought  to  Rose  Hill 
for  burial,  by  his  widow  and  eldest  son,  the  Rev. 
Ambrose  S.  Wight. 

After  Mr.  Wight  went  into  the  ministry,  the 
Church  elected  as  elders  in  April,  1856,  Reuben  D. 
Jones,  Elihu  Baker  and  D.  R.  Holt. 

Before  coming  to  Chicago,  Mr.  Baker  had  been  an 
elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Middleton  Point, 
New  Jersey.  In  July,  1857,  he  removed  to  Cedar 
Rapids,  Iowa,  and  died  there  October  23d,  1875,  in 
the  seventy-fifth  year  of  his  age — in  the  full  hope  of 
a  blessed  immortality. 

Mr.  Jones  removed  to  Como,  Illinois,  in  May,  1862, 
and  died  there  in  the  full  assurance  of  a  better  life, 
February  22d,  1867,  aged  sixty-six. 

Mr.  Holt  removed  to  Lake  Forest,  in  October, 
1 86 1,  where  he  still  resides.  He  was  one  of  the  or- 
ganizing members  of  Lake  Forest  Church,  and  for 
many  years  a  member  of  its  Session. 

In  January,  1862,  Zwinglius  Grover  and  Hiram 
F.  Mather  were  elected  and  ordained  as  elders. 
When  Mr.  Brown  went  abroad  in  1867,  Judge  Math- 
er was  chosen  clerk  of  Session,  and  held  this  office 
and  faithfully  performed  its  duties  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  on  July  nth,  1868,  in  the  seventy- 
second  year  of  his  age.  Judge  Mather  left  as  his 
best  testimonial,  the  record  of  an  upright  and  con- 
sistent professional  life. 

Prof.  Grover  succeeded  Judge  Mather  as  clerk  of 
the  Session,  and  held  this  office  until  1882,  and 


64  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

served  the  Church  as  one  of  its  elders  until  his  death 
in  1891. 

Prof.  Grover  was  born  in  Mansfield,  Mass.  His 
life  was  one  of  devotion  to  Christ.  He  was  sincere 
and  successful  in  the  line  of  his  chosen  occupation, 
in  the  advancement  of  all  that  was  good  and  noble. 
For  thirty-four  years  the  Principal  of  Dearborn  Semi- 
nary, he  exercised  a  powerful  Christian  influence 
upon  the  whole  community.  Prof.  Grover  died  De- 
cember 8th,  1891,  deeply  mourned  by  all  who  had 
come  under  his  gentle  influences.  He  was  nearly 
eighty  years  old  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  leaves 
a  name  honored  among  his  professional  associates,  in 
society,  and  in  the  Church. 

In  April,  1866,  the  Session  was  again  enlarged  by 
the  election  of  John  S.  Gould,  Mark  Skinner  and 
George  E.  Purington. 

Mr.  Purington  moved  to  Bvanston  in  June,  1868, 
where  he  resided  .several  years  and  did  much  in  sus- 
taining the  Presbyterian  Church  there,  and  rendered 
valuable  aid  in  rebuilding  the  Church  after  it  was 
burned  May  2,  1875.  He  was  elected  an  elder  in 
that  Church,  and  served  it  faithfully  until  his  re- 
turn to  the  city,  where  he  now  resides. 

Judge  Skinner,  with  his  family,  severed  his  con- 
nection with  the  Second  Church,  with  which  he  and 
they  had  been  so  long  identified,  March  5,  1880,  and 
joined  the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church,  where  he  was 
chosen  elder.  Judge  Skinner,  at  Manchester,  Vt, 
passed  away  from  earth  to  his  heavenly  home  Sep- 
tember 1 6th,  1887,  in  the  seventy -fifth  year  of  his 


MARK  SKINNER. 


THE   SESSION.  65 


age.  His  name  for  years  was  familiar  to  all  who 
thought  or  wished  any  good  thing. 

The  removal  of  Mr.  Purington  and  the  death  of 
Judge  Mather  made  it  necessary  to  fill  their  places  in 
the  Board  of  Elders.  In  April,  1869,  George  M. 
High  and  Henry  J.  Willing  were  chosen  and  ordained. 

Mr.  High  was  dismissed  at  his  request  December 
24th,  1873,  and  connected  himself  with  the  New 
England  Congregational  Church  of  this  city.  He 
afterwards  resided  for  a  time  at  Evanston,  but  is  now 
a  resident  of  the  city  and  a  member  of  the  Fourth 
Presbyterian  Church.  On  the  removal  of  his  resi- 
dence to  the  North  Side,  Mr.  Willing  was  dismissed 
at  his  own  request,  March  28th,  1877,  to  the  Fourth 
Presbyterian  Church,  where  he  is  an  elder. 

When  the  Second  and  Olivet  Churches  were 
united  by  Presbytery  in  September,  1871,  one  of  the 
terms  of  the  union  was  that  those  who  had  been 
elected  to  permanent  eldership  in  the  Olivet  Church 
should  be  retained  as  elders  in  the  united  church. 
By  these  terms  Oscar  F.  Avery,  Frederick  Crum- 
baugh  and  Nathaniel  S.  Bouton  became  elders  in  the 
Second  or  united  church.  Mr.  Bouton  declined  the 
office  and  sent  in  his  resignation,  and  did  not  assume 
the  duties  of  elder  in  the  united  church. 

On  Sabbath  evening,  March  i6th,  1879,  in  his 
sixty-second  year,  Dr.  Crumbaugh  was  taken  sud- 
denly ill  while  at  church.  He  was  removed  to  his 
home  and  died  during  the  night,  without  regaining 
consciousness,  having  been  transplanted  from  God's 


66  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

temple  of  worship  on  earth  to  the  heavenly  mansion 
prepared  for  him  by  his  loving  Saviour. 

Mr.  Avery  served  the  Church  most  faithfully  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  January  I3th,  1881.  He 
was  born  in  Groton,  Conn.,  and  came  first  to  Chicago 
in  1849,  after  which,  in  1858,  he  removed  to  New 
York  city,  where  he  was  an  elder  in  the  Fourth 
Avenue  Presbyterian  Church.  Returning  to  Chicago 
in  1864  he  united  with  Olivet  Church,  which  was 
very  near  his  residence.  He  was  elected  to  perma- 
nent eldership  in  that  Church,  and  on  the  union  of 
the  Olivet  and  Second  Churches  became  an  elder  in 
the  Second  Church.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
sixty-eight  years  old. 

Again  it  became  necessary  to  fill  the  places 
made  vacant  by  removal  and  death.  In  April,  1877, 
George  Armour,  Krastus  Foote  and  George  C.  Benton 
were  duly  elected  and  ordained. 

Mr.  Armour  gave  his  valued  services  to  the  Session 
for  fourteen  years,  when,  on  June  I3th,  1881,  while 
in  England,  he  passed  away,  in  full  faith  of  salvation 
through  the  Divine  Saviour,  in  the  sixty-eighth  year  of 
his  age.  His  remains  were  brought  home  and  appropri- 
ate services  held  in  the  Church  with  which  he  had  been 
for  so  long  a  time  a  consistent  and  valued  member. 

The  Session  was  again  enlarged  in  the  fall  of 
1882,  when,  on  November  ist,  Edward  Brust,  Henry 
M.  Ralston  and  Henry  P.  Merriman  were  elected 
and  ordained;  and  again  April  Qth,  1884,  when 
Thomas  Dent  and  A.  G.  Pettibone  were  duly  elec- 
ted, and  ordained  April  24th. 


HIRAM   F.  MATHER. 


THE   SESSION.  67 


Mr.  Brust  died  at  his  home  in  Chicago,  sustained 
by  God's  eternal  promise,  September  I2th,  1887, 
after  a  very  short  illness,  in  the  fifty-fourth  year  of 
his  age.  He  held  the  office  of  clerk  of  the  Session 
from  1884  till  his  death.  He  discharged  the  duties 
of  this  office  with  great  efficiency,  involving  as  they 
did  an  extra  amount  of  labor,  in  which  he  was 
assisted  by  T.  B.  Carter,  who  had  acted  as  clerk  for 
two  years  previous  to  Mr.  Brust's  election. 

On  Monday  evening,  October  3ist,  1888,  John  C. 
Grant  and  William  M.  Baker  were  elected  elders  and 
were  ordained  December  ad  following.  On  the  same 
evening,  when  Messrs.  Grant  and  Baker  were  chosen 
as  elders,  Messrs.  Harlan  D.  Cook,  William  F.  Hunt, 
George  W.  Cass,  Lester  Curtiss,  John  G.  Moore  and 
Frederick  M.  Steele  were  elected  deacons,  and  were 
also  ordained  to  this  newly  constituted  branch  of 
official  work  December  ad. 

Previous  to  this  time  the  duties  of  the  Board  of 
Deacons  had  been  performed  by  the  members  of  the 
Session. 

Of  the  twenty-nine  persons  who  have  been  chosen 
to  be  elders,  fifteen  have  died,  at  an  average  age  of 
seventy-three  years;  six  of  these  were  more  than 
seventy-five  years  old,  and  three  were  eighty  or  older. 
Of  those  who  are  living,  four  have  removed  to  other 
Churches  in  which  they  are  active  and  efficient  mem- 
bers, leaving  a  membership  of  ten  in  the  Session  of 
the  Second  Church.  Of  these  ten,  one  (Mr.  T.  B. 
Carter)  has  been  a  resident  of  Chicago  for  fifty-four 


68  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

years,  a  member  of  this  Church  for  fifty  years,  and  a 
member  of  the  Session  for  forty-seven  years. 

Mr.  Carter's  whole  history  in  connection  with  the 
Church  has  been  an  active  one.  He  has  been  inter- 
ested and  active  in  the  Board  of  Trustees,  the 
Sunday-school  and  the  Session.  Gifted  with  musical 
taste  and  ability,  he  was  for  many  years,  and  until 
the  introduction  of  the  quartette  choir  in  1854,  the 
leader  of  the  choir  and  has  always  been  interested  in 
the  musical  affairs  of  the  Church.  As  an  earnest 
friend,  a  wise  adviser  and  a  faithful  member  of  the 
Session,  he  has  long  enjoyed  the  increasing  respect 
and  affection  of  the  Church  and  of  the  community. 

Dr.  Patterson  says  in  regard  to  the  Session  during 
his  pastorate :  "It  was  one  of  the  best  I  ever  knew 
anywhere,  one  of  the  most  harmonious,  judicious  and 
active  in  every  relation  where  they  were  called  to  act. 
While  I  was  pastor  there  never  was  any  conflict  in 
the  Session.  I  ascribe  this  to  the  fact  that  those  who 
were  elected  members  of  the  first  Session  had  been 
members  of  the  Session  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  were  there  very  much  of  the  same  mind, 
and  came  from  that  Church  with  the  same  feelings 
and  for  substantially  the  same  reasons,  and  the  same 
was  true  of  those  who  became  members  of  the  Session 
later.  They  were  all  of  the  same  class,  those  who 
had  harmonized  before  from  the  beginning  of  the 
Church." 

DISCIPLINE. 

There  is  a  very  strong  tradition  that  the  discipline 
of  the  Second  Church  during  the  first  thirty  years  of 


THOMAS  B.  CARTER. 


THE   SESSION.  69 


its  history  was  extremely  "  efficient,  rigid  and  perva- 
sive." As  a  matter  of  fact  there  appear  to  have  been 
fewer  cases  of  discipline  than  is  common  in  so  large 
a  Church — fewer,  Dr.  Patterson  says,  than  in  any 
Church  with  which  he  was  ever  acquainted. 

The  cases  which  called  for  action  then  would  be 
as  promptly  noticed  now.  Certain  classes  of  amuse- 
ments, in  many  cases  harmless  in  themselves,  were  so 
affected  by  their  surroundings  that  they  could  not,  as 
they  then  existed,  receive  the  support  of  the  Christian 
part  of  the  community.  Balls  were  then  a  sort  of 
thing  regarded  as  being  composed  of  questionable 
people.  Public  dancing  was  one  of  the  occasions  of 
trouble  to  the  sessions  of  the  Presbyterian  Churches 
then,  and  some  cases  were  brought  before  the  Second 
Church  for  investigation  and  discipline.  The  same 
circumstances  would  demand  investigation  now. 
Several  persons  were  suspended  for  dancing  at  public 
balls,  which  were  held  in  places  where  reputable  people 
who  were  not  church  members  would  not  like  to  go. 

Occasional  admonitions  given  in  private  were 
received  in  the  Christian  spirit  in  which  they  were 
given,  with  scarcely  an  exception.  The  condition  of 
society  in  Chicago  has  so  thoroughly  changed,  the 
opportunities  for  the  complete  gratification  of  individ- 
ual inclination  have  been  so  multiplied,  and  the 
former  environment  of  pleasures  in  themselves  harm- 
less has  been  so  much  improved,  that  for  many  years 
there  has  been  little  occasion  to  question  the  Christian 
character  of  the  public  acts  of  members  of  this 
Church. 


TRUSTEES. 


Of  the  forty-three  Trustees  who  have  had  charge 
of  the  temporal  affairs  of  the  Church,  eighteen  are 
living.  The  list  of  those  who  have  died  is  rich  with 
the  following  honored  names : 

*  William  H.  Brown,  James  A.  Smith, 

George  W.  Merrill,  I.  H.  Burch, 

Elisha  Wadsworth,  H.  M.  Thompson, 

•Mark  Skinner,  C.  G.  Wicker, 

H.  G.  Hubbard,  Fred  Tuttle, 

John  W.  Hooker,  W.  R.  Gould, 

John  High,  Jr.,  J.  W.  McGenniss, 

E.  H.  Haddock,  Walter  Kimball, 

George  Collins,  *  George  Armour, 

*B.  W.  Raymond,  C.  P.  Kellogg, 

George  W.  Snow,  George  C.  Clarke, 

Peter  Page,  John  Crerar, 
J.  L.  Thompson. 

Successful  in  business,  direct  in  methods,  blame- 
less in  character,  they  sustained  their  burdens  always 
faithfully,  often  heroically. 

The  records  of  the  Trustees  bear  witness  to  the 
fidelity  and  prudence  with  which  they  administered 
their  trust,  and  to  their  appreciation  of  the  growing 
needs  of  the  Church.  To  be  liberal  without  extrava- 
gance and  prudent  without  parsimony  has  been  the 
task  which  they  have  performed  so  well.  In  no  other 
city  and  in  no  other  Church  has  this  principle  been 
more  generally  followed  or  more  abundantly  re- 


*  Also  a  member  of  the  Session. 

70 


.'.  H.  BURCH. 


TRUSTEES.  71 


warded.  At  one  of  the  Trustee  meetings  in  1845, 
"The  question  for  the  action  of  the  Trustees  was 
how  to  pay  our  pastor  the  arrearages  due  him  and 
keep  the  Church  finances  in  proper  condition."  It 
was  agreed  that  Mr.  Brown  should  lend  the  Church 
$50,  Mr.  Hubbard  $25,  and  Mr.  Carter  $25  for 
sixty  days,  or  to  be  refunded  out  of  the  moneys 
first  collected  in  the  next  quarter.  Mr.  Hastings 
was  hired  as  sexton,  at  six  dollars  a  month,  for  three 
months  from  January  ist.  The  purchase  of  the  lots 
between  the  Church  and  Clark  street  (the  southeast 
corner  of  Clark  and  Randolph  streets),  which  were 
offered  for  $20  per  foot,  was  considered  "  impractica- 
ble in  the  present  state  of  the  finances."  In  1850 
they  did  not  hesitate  to  borrow  $6,000,  at  12  per  cent 
interest,  "  for  the  purpose  of  finishing  the  Church 
edifice."  In  1853  they  passed  a  resolution  that  the 
doors  of  the  Church  should  be  locked  during  prayer, 
and  again  locked  just  before  the  commencement  of 
the  sermon. 

After  the  completion  of  the  present  Church  build- 
ing, when  confronted  with  a  debt  of  $80,000,  two  of 
the  Trustees  (Mr.  Armour  and  Mr.  Crerar)  gave 
$10,000  each  toward  paying  it  off,  and  at  a  proper 
time  saw  it  completely  extinguished. 

The  freedom  of  the  Church  from  debt,  the  large  and 
constant  contributions  which  it  has  made  for  benevolent 
purposes,  the  liberal  and  just  administration  of  its  af- 
fairs, and  the  continued  prosperity  which  it  has  en- 
joyed, are  the  best  evidences  of  the  care  and  skill  with 
which  its  temporal  affairs  have  been  managed. 


SUNDAY-SCHOOLS  OF  THE  CHURCH. 


The  Sunday- school  of  the  Second  Church  in  its 
earlier  history  was  never  a  large  one.  The  location 
of  the  Church  was  such  that  its  Sunday-school  work 
was  mainly  directed  to  the  children  of  families  con- 
nected with  or  interested  in  the  Church,  and  its  work 
was  always  a  successful  one  in  its  influence  on  the 
children  of  the  Church.  There  were  comparatively 
few  families  living  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  the 
Church,  and  efforts  to  draw  in  children  from  a  dis- 
tance would  either  have  been  unsuccessful  or  would 
have  interfered  with  the  success  of  Mission  Schools 
already  organized.  The  general  policy  of  the  Sun- 
day-school early  adopted,  has  been  followed,  with  the 
most  satisfactory  results.  While  the  most  sincere 
and  cordial  welcome  has  been  extended  to  all  who 
found  it  convenient  to  attend,  and  the  deepest  and 
most  lasting  interest  has  been  felt  for  all  who  have 
ever  been  connected  with  the  Sunday-school,  the 
policy  of  this  Church  has  been  to  teach  the  word  of 
God  to  the  people  at  times  and  places  convenient  for 
them  rather  than  to  ask  them  to  adapt  their  times 
and  places  to  the  convenience  of  the  Church.  There 
have  been  times  when  nearly  every  baptized  child  of 
suitable  age  to  understand  the  duties  and  privileges 
involved  in  the  step  became  a  member  of  the  Church. 
It  can  be  stated  here  as  a  blessed  experience  that 

72 


REV.  A.  W.  HENDERSON. 


SUNDAY-SCHOOLS  OF  THE  CHURCH.         73 

these  young  members  coming  from  the  families  of 
the  Church  have  proved  to  be  among  its  most  use- 
ful and  consistent  members. 

The  list  of  Superintendents  shows  representa- 
tives who  were  prominent  in  every  form  of  activ- 
ity. The  foremost  professional  and  business  men 
of  the  city  were  not  too  busy  with  their,  own  affairs 
to  be  glad  to  work  in  this  field  of  Christian  labor. 
During  Mr.  Holt's  superintendency  the  great  re- 
vival of  1858  brought  into  the  Church  nearly! every 
scholar  of  suitable  age.  During  the  superintendency 
of  Mr.  Kellogg  the  school  increased  rapidly  in  num- 
bers, and  the  rolls  often  showed  an  attendance  of  600 
to  700. 

Sylvester  Willard,  the  first  superintendent,  Wil- 
liam H.  Brown,  Rev.  J.  Ambrose  Wight  and  Prof. 
Zwinglius  Grover  were  members  of  the  Session. 

Rev.  A.  W.  Henderson,  who  had  been  obliged  to 
abandon  his  pastorate  on  account  of  throat  trouble  in 
1843,  established  one  of  the  first  female  seminaries 
in  Chicago.  After  restoration  to  health  he  resumed 
his  ministerial  labors,  first  at  Morris,  Illinois,  and 
later  at  Hlgin.  He  afterward  returned  to  Chicago 
and  established  the  first  daily  religious  service  in 
the  Bridewell,  also  the  first  African  Sunday-school. 
During  the  war  Mr.  Henderson  was  Chaplain  of  the 
Thirteenth  Illinois  Cavalry.  In  this  service  he  con- 
tracted a  disease  from  which  he  never  wholly  recov- 
ered. He  died  October  18,  1872,  after  a  life  of 
earnest  and  successful  work  for  the  Master. 

Hon.  William  Bross  was  a  prominent  figure  in 


74  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

the  political,  social  and  business  life  of  Chicago,  and 
was  at  all  times  deeply  interested  in  the  prosperity 
of  the  Church.  The  establishment  and  endowment 
of  the  University  at  Lake  Forest  were  always  near 
to  his  heart,  and  much  of  the  prosperity  which  has 
finally  come  to  that  institution  is  due  to  his  persis- 
tent faith  in  its  ultimate  success.  It  is  a  source  of 
sincere  regret  that  no  portrait  of  Governor  Bross  has 
been  obtainable  for  reproduction  in  these  pages. 

Charles  P.  Kellogg  took  hold  of  the  work  of  the 
Sunday-school  with  all  the  vigor  which  was  so  char- 
acteristic of  his  business  methods.  His  administra- 
tion was  marked  by  a  notable  increase  in  the  attend- 
ance, which  made  it  necessary  to  provide  additional 
facilities.  There  has  been  no  time  in  the  history  of 
the  Church  when  the  work  of  the  Sunday-school  was 
carried  on  with  more  enthusiasm  on  the  part  of 
teachers  and  pupils  alike  than  during  the  superin- 
tendency  of  Mr.  Kellogg. 

Prof.  Cyrus  F.  Hill,  for  many  years  a  prominent 
classical  teacher  in  Chicago,  served  the  Church  most 
acceptably,  as  superintendent  of  its  Sunday-school, 
for  part  of  a  year.  He  left  the  city  to  take  charge  of 
the  Milwaukee  Academy.  He  died  in  Milwaukee 
November  i6th,  1889,  in  the  thirtieth  year  of  his  life, 
prematurely,  but  not  until  he  had  achieved  rare  suc- 
cess in  his  chosen  career. 

General  S.  Lockwood  Brown  has  been  connected 
with  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  Sunday-school 
for  the  whole  period  of  fifty  years.  In  1843  ue 
organized  the  "  Young  Men's  Mission  "  Sunday-school 


CHARLES  P.   KELLOGG. 


SUNDAY-SCHOOLS   OF   THE   CHURCH.  75 

(now  Christ's  Chapel  Sunday-school)  on  the  North 
Side,  with  which  he  has  been  connected  for  forty- 
nine  years,  and  of  which  he  was  superintendent  for 
thirty  years. 

In  the  course  of  these  years  he  has  never  been 
absent  from  either  school  when  in  the  city,  and  by 
persistent  personal  appeal  his  labors  have  been  greatly 
blessed  in  bringing  many  young  people  to  a  knowl- 
edge of  the  Saviour. 


MISSION  SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. 


Howe  Street  Sunday-school. 

On  the  first  Sabbath  in  October,  1843,  tne  Young 
Men's  Mission  Sunday-school  was  organized  by  Mr. 
Maurice  A.  Wurtz,  Mr.  B.  W.  Thomas  and  Mr.  S. 
Lockwood  Brown,  all  members  of  the  Second  Presby- 
terian Church,  and  for  one  year  it  was  held  in  a  store 
on  Kinzie  street  near  Cass  street.  The  location  is 
now  269  Bast  Kinzie.  This  was  the  first  Mission 
Sunday-school  in  the  Northwest  and  probably  in  the 
United  States. 

In  the  fall  of  1844  the  school  was  removed  to  the 
Bethel  Church,  which  had  been  erected  on  Dearborn 
street,  between  Kinzie  and  the  river,  and  for  thirteen 
years  was  known  as  the  Bethel  Mission  Sunday-school. 

This  church  building  was  moved  three  times  dur- 
ing these  years,  first,  to  the  corner  of  Kinzie  and 
Franklin  streets,  then  to  the  corner  of  North  Wells 
and  Kinzie  streets,  now  occupied  by  Chicago  & 
Northwestern  Railway  passenger  depot,  and  from 
that  place  to  the  corner  of  North  Wells  and  Michi- 
gan streets. 

In  the  yeai  1857  a  large  and  convenient  building 
was  erected,  by  the  friends  of  this  Mission  Sunday- 
school,  on  Brie  street,  midway  between  North  Wells 
and  Franklin  streets,  and  for  fourteen  years  it  was 
known  as  the  Brie  Street  Mission  Sunday-school. 

76 


MISSION   SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.  77 

This  u  Sabbath  Home  "  was  destroyed  in  the  great 
fire  of  October  9,  1871,  but  the  Sabbath  after  the  fire 
a  meeting  was  held  on  the  site  of  the  destroyed 
building,  and  an  appointment  made  for  the  next 
"  Sabbath  reunion." 

After  the  great  fire  the  Brie  Street  Mission  was 
invited  to  the  Howe  Street  Mission,  and  the  united 
schools  for  sixteen  years  were  known  as  the  Howe 
Street  Mission  Sunday-school. 

During  the  year  1887  tne  beautiful  building  now 
occupied  was  erected  on  the  corner  of  Orchard  and 
Centre  streets  for  the  Howe  Street  Mission,  and  in 
the  new  home  is  known  as  Christ  Chapel  Sunday- 
school. 

For  almost  forty-nine  years  the  doors  of  this  mis- 
sion have  been  open  every  Sunday,  and  the  buildings 
occupied  by  it  have  always  been  filled  and  crowded 
by  happy  and  loyal  scholars  under  the  charge  of  a 
faithful  band  of  officers  and  teachers. 

Soon  after  the  commencement  of  this  school,  Mr. 
Maurice  A.  Wurts  removed  to  Philadelphia  and  be- 
came the  Secretary  of  the  American  Sunday-school 
Union.  Mr.  Thomas  organized  other  missions  in  the 
city,  and  Mr.  Brown  was  left  in  charge  of  the  original 
mission,  and  was  its  superintendent  from  1844  to 
1874,  most  ably  assisted  by  Mr.  T.  B.  Carter  and 
Mr.  H.  J.  Willing,  and  a  faithful  band  of  Christian 
workers  from  this  and  other  churches. 

Moseley  Mission  Sunday-school. 

In  1844,  Mr.  Edward  Boyd,  W.  W.  Adams,  Joseph 


SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


Meeker,  L-  D.  Olmstead,  Miss  Mary  Butler  and  her 
sister  Clarissa,  and  Miss  Susie  Williams,  all  mem- 
bers of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  commenced 
a  Sabbath-school  on  State  street,  near  Monroe,  occu- 
pying first  a  ware-room  and  then  a  part  of  a  private 
house  near  Harrison  street.  This  was  known  as  the 
State  Street  Mission.  Mr.  Walter  Butler,  who  was 
one  of  the  early  members  of  the  Second  Church, 
erected  a  residence  on  Harrison  street,  near  Clark 
street,  and  as  there  was  no  day  school  in  his  vicinity, 
he  built  a  small  building  for  a  day  school,  and  em- 
ployed a  teacher. 

The  use  of  the  building  was  given  to  the  State 
Street  Mission  free  of  cost,  and  the  work  was  then 
known  as  the  Butler  Mission. 

These  rooms  were  soon  too  small,  and  the  Harri- 
son Street  Public  School  building  was  obtained  for  a 
year,  at  the  end  of  which  time  they  had  to  look 
again  for  a  place  in  which  to  continue  their  work. 

Rev.  K.  F.  Dickinson,  the  City  Missionary,  had 
collected  money  from  the  various  Churches  and  had 
built  a  small  chapel  on  Taylor  street,  near  Fourth 
avenue,  for  an  industrial  school.  The  Butler  Mis- 
sion was  offered  to  this  chapel  if  they  would  take  the 
Sabbath-school  work  and  carry  it  on.  This  was 
known  as  the  Taylor  Street  Mission.  This  building 
was  soon  crowded  every  Sunday,  and  it  was  deemed 
best  to  have  a  larger  building  to  accommodate  the 
increasing  numbers. 

In  1851  a  lot  was  leased  on  the  corner  of  Taylor 
street  and  Fourth  avenue,  a  temporary  building  was 


MISSION  SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.  79 

erected  by  the  original  Butler.  Mission  School  Band 
of  Workers,  and,  for  the  first  time,  they  had  a  chapel 
of  their  o.wn.  In  1864  a  new  chapel  was  built  on  a 
lot  purchased  by  members  of  the  Second  Church, 
near  the  corner  of  Taylor  street  and  Fourth  avenue. 

In  1865,  by  the  death  of  Mr.  Flavel  Moseley,  the 
Second  Presbyterian  Church  came  into  possession  of 
a  legacy  of  $10,000,  the  interest  of  which  was  to  be 
spent  for  the  support  of  mission  schools.  At  about 
the  same  time  $1,000  was  raised  among  the  members 
of  the  Second  Church  for  a  pipe-organ  for  the  Tay- 
lor Street  Chapel.  At  the  dedication  the  name 
"  Moseley  Chapel "  was  placed  on  the  front  of  the 
organ,  and  the  chapel  and  school  were  then  for  the 
first  time  known  by  the  name  which  they  have  since 
borne. 

In  1870  negotiations  were  concluded  for  the  sale  of 
the  property  to  members  of  the  Trinity  Episcopal 
Church  for  a  mission  enterprise.  They  took  posses- 
sion of  the  building,  refitted  and  remodeled  it,  and 
began  what  promised  to  be  a  successful  mission 
school. 

A  few  months  after  this,  in  September,  1871,  the 
Second  Church  had  perfected  arrangements  for  union 
with  the  Olivet  Church,  worshipping  on  the  corner  of 
1 4th  street  and  Wabash  avenue,  and  held  its  first 
service  in  that  Church  on  Sunday,  October  8th,  1871. 
That  night  the  fire  commenced  which  burned  many 
of  the  most  costly  churches  of  the  city,  and  among 
these  the  old  Second,  on  the  corner  of  Washington 
street  and  Wabash  avenue,  and  Trinity  Episcopal 


8O  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

Church,  besides  reducing  many  of  our  most  wealthy 
citizens  to  poverty.  In  consequence  the  purchase 
of  the  mission  property  was  never  completed,  and 
its  ownership  reverted  to  the  trustees  of  the  Second 
Church. 

Shortly  after  this  one  of  the  colored  churches 
which  had  lost  its  building  by  the  fire,  purchased  the 
property  for  its  use,  and  occupied  it  until  the  second 
fire  in  July,  1874,  when  the  building  where  so  many 
prayers  had  been  offered,  so  much  spiritual  instruc- 
tion given,  and  so  many  souls  converted,  was  burned 
to  the  ground.  The  property,  with  the  insurance  on 
the  building,  reverted  again  to  the  trustees  of  the 
Second  Church. 

After  the  first  sale  of  the  building,  the  Moseley 
School  united  their  work  with  Burr  Mission,  which 
was  the  outgrowth  of  the  Industrial  School  com- 
menced on  Taylor  street  by  the  Rev.  K.  F.  Dickinson 
some  years  before,  and  with  which  Moseley  Mis- 
sion had  co-operated  in  the  Taylor  Street  Mission. 

Moseley  Mission  was  reorganized  in  the  fall  of 
1874,  by  the  opening  of  an  afternoon  Sunday-school 
in  the  school-room  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church ;  this  was  for  the  benefit  of  children  in  the 
district  not  reached  by  the  Church.  This  enterprise, 
however,  was  only  moderately  successful,  as  the 
field  was  already  occupied  by  other  schools  in  the 
neighborhood. 

During  the  following  winter  Mr.  B.  F.  Norris 
called  the  attention  of  the  Church  to  the  needs  of  the 
district  in  the  vicinity  of  Twenty-ninth  street  and 


MISSION  SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.  8 1 

Cottage  Grove  avenue,  which  had  just  been  abandoned 
by  the  Trinity  Church  branch  school.  The  after- 
noon mission  Sunday-school  at  the  Second  Church 
was  given  up  and  a  number  of  its  officers,  teachers 
and  scholars,  in  May,  1875,  joined  a  number  of  those 
who  had  been  interested  in  the  Trinity  branch  school. 
The  Mosely  Sunday-school  was  thus  re-established, 
in  the  basement  of  the  building  on  the  southwest 
corner  of  Twenty-ninth  street  and  Cottage  Grove 
avenue.  Mr.  T.  B.  Carter,  a  former  superintendent 
of  the  old  Moseley  Mission,  conducted  the  prelimi- 
nary work  of  organization.  Of  this  school  Mr.  S.  L- 
Brown  was  chosen  superintendent.  In  1876  the  new 
building  at  No.  2539  Calumet  avenue,  now  known* 
as  the  Moseley  Mission,  was  erected,  and  from  that 
year  the  influence  of  the  school  has  steadily  in- 
creased. 

This  was  the  second  mission  opened  by  the  young' 
men  and  women  of  this  Church,  and  has  been  con- 
tinued for  nearly  forty-eight  years,  either  in  its  own 
hired  house,  its  own  chapel,  or  in  connection  with 
other  missions. 

The  interest  which  the  Second  Church  has  taken 
in  the  Moseley  Mission  has  always  been  very  great. 
Most  of  its  superintendents  have  come  from  the 
Second  Church,  and  for  many  years  the  supply  of 
teachers  has  been  drawn  largely  from  this  Church. 

To  Mr.  Edward  Boyd,  a  name  now  known  only  to> 
the  earlier  members  of  the  Church,  to  D.  J.  Laker 
S.  D.  Ward  (who  was  superintendent  for  twelve 
years),  Henry  Johnson,  George  E.  Puringtonr 


82  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

Thomas  B.  Carter,  Gen.  Brown,  Rev.  E.  F.  Dickin- 
son, whose  long  and  self-denying  life  is  not  forgotten, 
B.  F.  Norris,  Robert  W.  Ralston,  Howard  Henderson, 
Ralph  Metcalf,  Paul  Hayward,  Lynn  Helm,  John  G. 
Moore,  K.  D.  Wheelock,  Robert  Forsythe,  Ira  W. 
Allen,  Jr.,  who  have  in  turn  for  so  many  years  carried 
forward  this  Mission,  the  Church  owes  its  thanks  for 
services  as  superintendents. 

The  rapid  growth  of  the  city  has  forced  man}''  of 
the  former  attendants  at  the  Chapel  to  move  from 
Cottage  Grove  avenue  and  the  streets  intersecting  it 
between  Twenty-second  and  Thirty-first  streets,  to 
locations  further  west,  less  affected  by  the  rapid 
growth  of  the  city.  Others  have  taken  advantage  of 
the  better  opportunities  offered  in  the  rapidly  grow- 
ing southern  portions  of  the  city  and  have  gone  as  far 
south  as  One  Hundred  and  Second  street.  But  there 
are  still  many  in  the  neighborhood  to  whom  Moseley 
Chapel  is  a  center,  around  which  their  interest  gathers. 

The  Sunday-school  meets  as  usual  at  three  o'clock 
every  Sunday  afternoon.  It  has  a  membership  of 
three  hundred,  with  an  average  attendance  of  two 
hundred  and  forty. 

Some  of  the  workers  in  the  Mission  at  the  pres- 
ent time  have  been  members  of  the  school  from 
childhood,  and  are  now  lending  efficient  aid  as  teach- 
ers and  officers.  The  school  has  contributed  $225 
the  past  year  to  the  following  objects  : 

Cook  County  Sunday-school  Union. 

Children's  Aid  Society,  Charities,  and  Foreign 
Missions. 


MISSION  SUNDAY-SCHOOLS-  83- 

An  adult  Bible  Class  formed  by  Rev.  E.  L.  Dick- 
inson, since  his  death  has  been  successfully  led  by 
Mr.  M.  R.  Barnard,  and  more  recently  by  Mr.  W.  J. 
H.  Hughes.  The  Superintendent  conducts  a  teach- 
ers' meeting  every  Saturday  evening.  The  Primary 
and  Infant  departments  are  full  of  little  children 
under  the  care  of  successful  teachers.  To  graduate 
from  the  Primary  Department  to  the  Main  room  is 
an  ambition  that  early  possesses  the  hearts  of  the 
children.  The  Ten  Commandments;  the  Twenty- 
third  Psalm ;  the  Beatitudes  and  the  Lord's  Prayer 
well  learned,  with  the  ability  to  read,  entitles  them  to 
the  privilege. 

The  young  people  have  been  organized  into  a  So- 
ciety of  Christian  Endeavor.  The  weekly  meeting  of 
this  society  is  Tuesday  evening  at  8  o'clock.  Indi- 
vidual development  and  personal  consecration  mark 
the  special  growth  of  this  society.  A  delegate  is  sent 
each  year  to  the  convention  of  the  United  Society  of 
Christian  Endeavor.  Hospital  visitation,  the  distribu- 
tion of  flowers  and  cottage  prayer-meetings  have  been 
the  volunteer  work  of  some  of  the  members.  The  vis- 
iting scheme  of  the  South  Side  Union  has  been  very 
helpful  to  this  society,  as  it  has  brought  them  in  con- 
tact with  other  societies,  developing  mutual  interest 
and  Christian  unity. 

A  mothers'  meeting  is  held  every  Wednesday  after- 
afternoon  at  three  o'clock,  under  the  leadership  of 
Miss  Cundall,  supported  by  frequent  assistance  from 
the  ladies  of  the  Church.  Tea  is  served  after  the 
devotional  exercises,  affording  an  opportunity  for 
those  who  attend  to  become  better  acquainted. 


84  SECOND    PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

Aside  from  the  meetings  held  during  the  week, 
visits  are  made  among  the  families  represented  in  the 
mission  by  Miss  Cundall  as  missionary,  and  by  the 
teachers  of  the  school. 

The  liberality  that  has  supported  this  mission 
through  all  the  years  has  its  due  reward  in  the  many 
lives  that  have  been  lifted  Godward  through  its  influ- 
ence. "  The  good  begun  doth  like  a  river  run,  and 
broader  flow." 

The  Eleanor  J.  Reid  Kindergarten. 

In  September,  18-82,  Mary  McC.  Boomer,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  entered  the 
Kindergarten  Normal  Training  Class  under  the 
supervision  of  the  Chicago  Free  Kindergarten  Asso- 
ciation. With  increased  knowledge  and  insight  into 
the  value  of  the  kindergarten  principles  as  the  basis 
of  all  true  education,  was  more  fully  revealed  the 
fact  that  the  Kindergarten  idea  is  the  beginning  of 
spiritual  development  and  the  starting  point  for  indus- 
trial training.  Such  facts  as  these,  with  others 
vitally  important  in  the  life  of  childhood,  impelled 
Miss  Boomer  to  urge  upon  the  pastor  of  the  Church, 
Rev.  S.  J.  McPherson,  to  consider  ways  and  means 
for  the  purpose  of  starting  a  kindergarten  in  the 
Church  mission  at  Moseley  Chapel.  Many  prominent 
members  of  the  Church  were  consulted  and  many 
difficulties  were  met,  as  most  people,  through  lack  of 
knowledge,  thought  that  the  kindergarten  was  too 
expensive  for  philanthropic  work.  Several  friends  of 
the  cause,  however,  promised  financial  aid  as  plans 


MISSION  SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.  85 


assumed  more  definite  shape,  and  then  Mr.  John 
Crerar  quietly  promised  the  Pastor  that  he  would 
"  see  the  thing  through  the  first  year."  He  said  that 
if  it  was  successful  it  should  not  be  abandoned. 
During  the  remainder  of  his  life  he  was  its  most 
generous  supporter. 

The  Pastor  felt  a  deep  interest  in  the  success  of  the 
enterprise  and  believed  that  it  would  be  a  great  help 
to  the  Sunday-school  and  to  the  Industrial  School,  as 
well  as  a  little  leaven  in  the  social  life  in  the  neigh- 
borhood. 

In  September,  1883,  the  kindergarten  was  opened 
in  Moseley  Chapel,  2537  Calumet  avenue.  Its  nu- 
cleus was  a  small  group  of  children  who  had  formerly 
attended  the  second  kindergarten,  started  by  the 
Free  Kindergarten  Association  in  the  old  United 
States  Hotel,  Cottage  Grove  avenue  and  Thirty-first 
street.  The  rooms  there  were  given  up ;  the  furni- 
ture was  sold  to  the  Second  Church,  and  the  new 
kindergarten  opened  with  about  eighty  in  attend- 
ance, with  Miss  Boomer  and  several  assistants  in 
charge. 

Miss  Ross,  then  in  charge  of  the  Normal  Train- 
ing Classes  of  the  Kindergarten  Association,  gave  a 
talk  to  the  ladies  of  the  Church  at  a  meeting  specially 
called  by  the  Pastor.  This  gave  them  a  better  idea 
of  what  the  work  was  and  of  its  importance  and 
value.  A  committee  of  ladies  from  the  Church  was 
appointed  to  have  charge  of  the  kindergarten  and 
co-operate  with  the  Association  which  supplied  the 
teachers.  Of  this  committee,  Mrs.  Peter  Page  was 


86  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

chairman.  The  Church  missionaries,  Miss  Julia 
Hatch  and  Miss  Cundall,  rendered  valuable  service 
in  visiting  children's  homes.  The  principal  of  the 
kindergarten  also  visited  the  homes  monthly.  Re- 
ports of  these  visits,  together  with  a  verbal  report  from 
the  policeman  of  the  district,  proved  how  great  was 
the  value  of  the  kindergarten  in  the  improvement 
of  the  family  life,  in  mind,  morals,  and  manners. 

The  first  year's  work  was  successful  and  the 
Church  Session  voted  the  continuance  of  the  kin- 
dergarten. 

Offerings  have  been  gathered  once  every  autumn 
since  that  time  at  the  regular  Sunday  services,  for 
the  support  of  the  kindergarten,  and  many  generous 
contributions  have  been  made.  Now  the  kindergar- 
ten is  considered  one  of  the  regular  lines  of  educa- 
tional mission  work,  and  is  well  supported  under  the 
general  charge  of  a  committee  from  the  Ladies'  Home 
Missionary  Society.  Until  1892-93  a  lunch  was  fur- 
nished each  week  by  volunteers  from  the  Church; 
this  simple  meal  was  given  the  children  for  the  pur- 
pose of  teaching  them  courtesy  and  refinement  at  the 
table. 

In  the  winter  and  spring  of  1888,  Mrs.  William  H, 
Reid  became  greatly  interested  in  the  kindergarten, 
and  while  Miss  Boomer  was  allowed  a  leave  of  ab- 
sence for  rest  and  travel  in  Europe,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Reid  most  generously  offered  to  build  a  special 
kindergarten  room  on  the  remainder  of  the  lot  back 
of  the  Mission  Chapel.  The  work  was  pushed  to  a 
rapid  completion,  and  at  a  cost  of  $3,800.  In  the 


REV.   E.   F.   DICK  NSON. 


MISSION  SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.  87 

autumn  of  1888  the  kindergarten  occupied  its  beau- 
tiful new  home.  Mrs.  Reid,  who  was  an  invalid,  did 
not  live  to  see  the  work  finished.  The  kindergarten 
was  named  for  her  and  has  since  been  known  as  the 
Eleanor  Reid  Kindergarten. 

Through  these  many  years  hundreds  of  children 
have  been  greatly  blessed  by  its  training.  The  aver- 
age daily  attendance  during  this  time  has  been  about 
eighty  children  under  the  age  of  seven.  One  of  the 
most  valuable  lines  of  work  done  through  the  kinder- 
garten is  by  means  of  the  parents'  meetings.  These 
have  been  conducted  informally  for  a  number  of 
years.  Mothers'  meetings  were  often  held,  the  plan 
of  work  explained  to  them,  their  children  talked  of, 
and  helps  of  many  kinds  on  many  subjects  given. 
Of  late,  meetings  for  fathers  and  mothers  have  been 
held  in  the  evening,  and  have  been  greatly  blessed. 
The  families  reached  represent  several  nationali- 
ties, among  which  German  predominates.  They  live 
in  a  brewery  district,  have  no  places  of  pleasant  and 
right  entertainment  and  naturally  drift  to  the  saloons. 
The  hope  is  entertained  that  the  kindergarten  room, 
during  the  hours  when  it  is  not  required  for  the  chil- 
dren, may  be  used  as  a  reading  room  for  the  parents. 


Rev.  Edmund  F.  Dickinson  was  first  connected 
with  the  Second  Church  through  his  interest  in  its 
mission  Sunday-school  work.  He  labored  with  suc- 
cess in  the  early  Taylor  Street  Mission,  and  later  in 
the  Erie  Street  Mission,  which  belonged  to  the  Second 


88 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Church.  He  afterwards  took  a  very  active  part  in  the 
establishment  of  Burr  Mission,  under  the  liberal  pro- 
tection of  Mr.  Jonathan  Burr. 

For  several  years  before  his  death  Mr.  Dickinson 
taught  a  large  class  in  the  Moseley  Sunday-school, 
and  up  to  within  four  days  of  his  death  was  a  most 
efficient  worker  in  the  Moseley  Mission. 

Mr.  Dickinson  died  on  January  3d,  1889,  after  a 
long  life  faithfully  devoted  to  giving  Christian  cheer 
and  comfort  to  the  poor  and  unfortunate. 

Bethany  Mission. 

IMMANUEL    PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH. 

On  January  i,  1887,  a  bitterly  cold  day,  the  pastor 
of  the  Second  Church  and  Mr.  Robert  G.  Hall,  a 
member,  organized  a  Sunday-school,  with  45  mem- 
bers, in  Keeley  Hall,  an  abandoned  Masonic  lodge 
room  on  the  third  floor,  at  2835  Keeley  street,  Chi- 
cago. Several  members  of  the  church  did  faithful 
service  as  teachers  until  January  i,  1888,  when  a 
sufficient  number  of  teachers  were  provided  from  the 
field.  Mr.  Robert  W.  Ralston,  who  had  been  for 
several  years  at  the  head  of  Burr  Mission,  soon 
became  the  Superintendent  and  remained  in  that 
position  until  his  final  illness  disabled  him.  Under 
his  efficient  and  kindly  management,  the  school  grew 
rapidly  until  its  membership  was  about  300.  After 
the  first  month  Mr.  B-  S.  Pike  assumed  the  rent  of 
the  hall,  and  he  has  continued  to  aid  the  school, 
sometimes  to  the  extent  of  $1,500  a  year,  until  the 
present  time.  Others  have  helped  carry  the  current 


MISSION   SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.  89 

expenses,  including  Mrs.  B.  W.  Raymond,  Mr.  J.  H. 
Dunham,  and  Mr.  Allison  V.  Armour. 

A  church  was  organized  October  28,  1887,  with  38 
members.  Three  elders  and  three  deacons  were  elec- 
ted at  the  organization,  and  ordained  and  installed 
November  4,  1887. 

The  name  first  adopted  was  the  Bethany  Presbyte- 
rian Church.  But  the  name  Bethany  happening  to 
be  chosen  by  another  congregation  at  the  same  time, 
this  church  voted  to  replace  it  with  Immanuel. 

In  April,  1888,  Mr.  W.  R.  Dobyns,  a  student  in 
the  McCormick  Theological  Seminary,  became  the 
stated  supply  until  his  graduation  in  the  following 
year.  He  was  then  elected  to  the  pastorate.  He 
was  ordained  and  installed  May  17,  1890.  On  ac- 
count of  failing  health  he  retired  from  active  labors 
on  the  field  January  i,  1891,  and  he  was  formally 
released  in  the  following  May. 

The  present  pastor  began  his  successful  labors 
upon  being  called  in  August,  1891.  He  was  installed 
in  October.  The  membership  of  the  church  is  now 
205.  There  are  eight  elders,  three  deacons,  and  a 
local  board  of  trustees  having  six  members. 

The  congregation  so  increased  that  the  need  of  a 
church  home  speedily  became  apparent.  With  the 
aid  and  counsel  of  Mr.  E-  S.  Pike,  the  congregation, 
which  had  contributed  towards  the  support  of  the 
church  from  the  first,  subscribed  over  $3,500,  and  in 
January,  1889,  they  purchased  three  lots  on  Thirty- 
first  and  Bonfield  streets. 

A  church  on  those  lots  is  now  approaching  com- 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


pletion.  The  plans  were  presented  by  Messrs.  Burn- 
hain  and  Root,  who  are  gratuitously  supervising  its 
erection.  The  audience  room  will  have  a  seating 
capacity  of  700,  in  addition  to  450  in  the  Sunday- 
school  rooms.  There  are  also  a  pastor's  study,  a 
library,  a  parlor  and  a  kitchen.  The  completed 
church,  exclusive  of  organ  and  furniture,  will  cost 
$16,000,  all  of  which  is  in  hand. 

The  Presbyterian  League  of  Chicago  granted 
$6,000  out  of  the  legacy  left  •  by  John  Crerar.  The 
remaining  $10,000,  given  through  the  League,  have 
been  contributed  by  members  of  the  Second  Church 
and  congregation,  as  follows:  (Some  of  these  sums 
include  interest  which  accrued  in  bank.) 

Anonymous $  53 

Allison  V.  Armour,  besides  large  contributions 

to  current  expenses 414 

A.  J.  Averell 500 

Enos  Ayres 104 

Mrs.  John  Barker 305 

Win.  Blair 543 

T.  B.  Blackstone 1,000 

R.  R.  Cable 262 

G.  W.  Cass 150 

A.  J.  Caton 104 

W.  F.  Cobb 105 

J.  H.  Dunham,  besides  large  contributions  to 

current  expenses 1,000 

Mrs.  Edward  Ely 53 

J.  M.  Gillespie 53 


MISSION   SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.  9! 

C.  S.  Holt $      50 

Albert  Keep 500 

Mrs.  C.  P.   Kellogg 104 

Hugh  McBirney .    250 

Thomas  Murdock 535 

B.  S.  Pike,  besides  large  contributions  to  cur- 
rent  expenses 3,ooo 

W.  H.  Reid 834 

T.  A.  Shaw 104 


Total .  $10,023 

Burr  Mission. 

Through  the  generosity  of  Jonathan  Burr,  a  capi- 
talist and  member  of  the  Unitarian  Church  of  this 
city,  who  died  in  1870,  the  "  Home  for  the  Friend- 
less "  was  established  in  Chicago.  In  the  year  1867 
he  deeded  also  a  lot  on  Third  avenue,  near  Thir- 
teenth street,  with  the  building  thereon,  for  an 
Industrial  School,  Missionary  Sunday-school,  and 
Free  Chapel,  all  to  be  undenominational. 

The  Olivet  Presbyterian  Church  had  a  nominal 
oversight  of  this  school,  and  furnished  a  large  major- 
ity of  the  teachers.  When  the  Olivet  Church  united 
with  the  Second,  this  nominal  oversight  continued 
with  the  latter  church,  which  also  furnished  a  large 
proportion  of  teachers. 

In  1880  the  property  on  Third  avenue  was  con- 
demned for  railroad  purposes,  and  a  change  of  loca- 
tion became  necessary.  A  lot  on  the  corner  of  Went- 
worth  avenue  and  Twenty- third  street  was  purchased 


92  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

and  a  new  chapel  erected,  using  as  much  of  the  old 
building  as  possible. 

Mr.  Robert  W.  Ralston,  a  member  of  the  Second 
Church,  was  superintendent  of  the  school  from  1872 
till  1885,  when  he  resigned  on  account  of  ill  health. 
Mr.  Ralston  died  January  19,  1888,  in  his  forty-fifth 
year. 

In  the  death  of  Mr.  Ralston  the  Church  and  com- 
munity sustained  a  severe  loss.  Diligent  and  suc- 
cessful in  business,  generous  of  time  and  means  in  the 
prosecution  of  every  good  work,  gentle  and  patient 
throughout  his  long  and  trying  sickness,  he  has  left 
to  his  family  the  rich  heritage  of  a  truly  successful 
life,  and  to  the  Church  a  rare  example  of  Christian 
good  fellowship.  In  the  thirteen  years  during  which 
he  was  Superintendent  of  the  Burr  Mission  Sunday- 
school,  probably  no  day  passed,  some  part  of  which 
he  did  not  devote  to  its  interests. 


The  Second  Church  has  been  interested  in  all 
the  benevolent  efforts  of  the  time,  .and  its  money 
or  that  of  its  members  has  been  freely  given  to 
establish  and  help  the  "  Chicago  Orphan  Asylum," 
"  Home  for  the  Friendless,"  "  Old  Ladies'  Home," 
"Chicago  Bible  Society,"  "American  Tract  Society," 
"American  Seaman's  Friend  Society,"  and  other 
organizations  working  for  the  moral  and  physical 
welfare  of  the  community.  In  its  earlier  and  later 
years  the  "  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  "  has 
drawn  largely  from  the  members  of  the  Church  to  sus- 
tain it  in  its  grand  work. 


OTHER  CHURCHES. 


The  Second  Church  has  sent  out  intelligent  and 
efficient  workers,  whose  influence  has  operated  to 
leaven  and  strengthen  many  weak  churches  and  to 
lead  in  the  establishment  of  new  churches  far  beyond 
the  limits  and  neighborhood  of  the  city.  Of  this  there 
have  been  many  examples. 

Reference  has  been  made  to  the  dominating  influ- 
ence which  the  slavery  question  had  assumed  in  the 
West  in  the  earlier  days  of  the  Second  Church. 
Prominent  persons  from  the  South,  who  had  come  to 
Chicago  to  reside,  and  who  desired  to  unite  with  the 
Church — there  were  several  such  cases — were  required 
to  assure  the  Session  that  they  would  sever  their 
connection  with  slavery  by  giving  freedom  to  their 
slaves  as  soon  as  they  could  do  so  legally  and  with 
safety  to  those  whom  they  held  in  bondage. 

North  Presbyterian  Church. 

The  action  thus  taken  by  the  Session  and  sustained 
by  the  public  sentiment  of  the  Church  at  large,  was, 
perhaps,  the  one  principal  influence  that  led  to  the 
organization  of  the  first  "  Old  School "  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  city,  in  1849.  This  church  was  located 
on  the  north  side  of  the  river,  under  the  pastoral 
charge  of  Rev.  R.  H.  Richardson. 

The   following  persons   were   duly  dismissed  by 

93 


94  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

letter,  viz.:  Mrs.  Charlotte  H.  Wadswortli,  Mrs. 
Melinda  Kasson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  M.  Dorman,  Mrs. 
Susan  Chapin,  Mrs.  George  A.  Gibbs,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Stewart  Moore,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sidney  Abell,  Mrs. 
Jonas  Clark,  and  Mr.  James  Withrow,  to  be  organized 
with  others  into  the  North  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Chicago— Old  School. 

This  was  the  first  colony  sent  out  from  the  Second 
Church. 

Westminster  Church. 

The  next  colony  sent  out  was  July  3Oth,  1855, 
when  Henry  Smith  and  Mrs.  Melinda  W.  Smith, 
Nathaniel  Paige,  Edward  Wilcox,  Mrs.  Mariette 
E.  Wilcox,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  W.  Thomas',  Lewis  E. 
Whitcomb,  Mrs.  Abby  L.  Brown,  Mrs.  Nancy  Pitkin, 
Miss  Louisa  Pitkin,  and  others  from  the  First 
Church,  were  organized  into  the  Westminster  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Chicago,  New  School.  Dr.  A.  D. 
Eddy,  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  was  called  to  be  its  pastor. 
Dr.  Eddy  accepted  the  call  and  the  Church  was  fully 
organized. 

The  North  Church,  Dr.  Marquis,  pastor,  and  the 
Westminster,  Prof.  Swing,  pastor,  united  to  form  the 
Fourth  Presbyterian  Church,  of  which  Prof.  Swing 
was  the  first  pastor. 

Olivet  Church. 

December  3d,  1856,  another  colony  was  sent  out, 
comprising  the  following  persons,  who  were  dismissed 
to  be  organized  into  the  Olivet  Presbyterian  Church, 
under  the  pastoral  charge  of  Rev.  J.  Ambrose 


REV.  J.  AMBROSE  WIGHT. 


OTHER  CHURCHES.  95 


Wight,  viz.:  Mrs.  J.  A.  Wight,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Simeon  B.  Williams,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  Ely, 
Edward  A.  Burbank,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  H.  Dennison, 
Robert  H.  Howe  and  Bradford  Y.  Averell. 

Olivet  Church  was  subsequently  united  with  the 
Second,  in  1871. 

Immanuel  Presbyterian  Church. 

On  page  88  reference  has  been  made  to  the  de- 
velopment of  Immanuel  Presbyterian  Church  from 
Bethany  Mission. 

Besides  those  who  went  out  from  us  to  organize 
the  several  churches  before  mentioned,  the  Third, 
Fourth,  Sixth,  Stock  Yards,  Woodlawn,  South  Chi- 
cago, Lake  Forest,  Evanston  and  Hyde  Park,  and 
other  churches  of  the  Presbytery  of  Chicago,  and 
the  New  England  and  many  other  Congregational 
churches,  have  had  valued  representatives  from  the 
Second  Church. 


REVIVALS. 


The  Second  Church  has  not  been  without  many 
manifest  tokens  of  the  divine  favor,  in  connection 
with  the  faithful  preaching  of  the  Word  and  other 
means  of  grace,  even  from  its  earliest  history. 
There  have  been  many  additions  to  the  Church  on 
profession  of  faith  by  individuals  during  its  entire 
history,  and  scarcely  a  communion  has  passed  with- 
out some  new  convert  coming  forward  to  witness  his 
love  for  Christ,  and  to  make  a  public  profession  of 
consecration  to  His  service. 

There  have  also  been  several  seasons  of  special 
interest,  in  which  many  were  added  to  the  Church. 
These  revival  seasons  occurred  in  the  years  1845, 
1850,  1852,  1855,  1858  and  1864,  through  earnest 
preaching  of  the  simple  gospel,  and  during  the  pas- 
torate of  Dr.  Gibson,  in  connection  with  Mr. 
Moody's  Tabernacle  meetings  of  the  year  1877,  when 
over  one  hundred  persons  united  with  the  Church. 

Under  the  leadership  of  Dr.  Patterson,  the  revival 
of  1858,  which  followed  closely  the  commercial  and 
business  prostration  of  1857,  developed  special  power 
and  influence.  Many  prominent  business  men  were 
brought  to  consider  the  question  of  laying  up  treas- 
ures in  heaven,  at  a  time  when  so  many  had  lost 
their  earthly  treasures  by  the  disasters  of  the  pre- 
ceding year.  Morning  prayer-meetings  were  com- 

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REVIVALS.  97 


menced  during  the  winter  of  1857-58,  in  the  lecture- 
room  of  the  Church,  and  were  continued  for  many 
mouths.  This  revival  was  the  result  of  a  clear  pre- 
sentation of  the  gospel  by  the  pastor,  and  was 
carried  on  without  aid  from  any  of  the  evangelists  of 
the  day. 

There  were  thirty  conversions  in  the  Olivet  Church, 
which  had  been  so  recently  set  off  as  a  colony  from 
the  Second  Church,  during  this  revival. 

The  spiritual  history  of  those  who  came  into  the 
Church  soon  after  the  revival  of  1858,  shows  unusual 
perseverance  in  the  Christian  life.  Of  the  one 
hundred  or  more  who  united  with  the  Church  as  a 
result  of  this  period  of  interest,  many  have  achieved 
a  high  degree  of  business  or  professional  success. 
The  many  who  have  passed  away  have  left  their 
impress  for  good  on  the  world,  while  the  survivors 
are  among  the  strongest  and  most  useful  members  of 
this  and  other  churches. 

Of  the  revival  of  1858  Dr.  Patterson  says:  "It 
was  the  most  extended  revival  we  had,  and  a  larger 
number  of  adults  came  into  the  Church  at  that  time 
than  at  any  other.  It  was  one  of  the  most  remarka- 
ble revivals  in  several  of  its  features,  with  which  I 
was  ever  acquainted.  The  prayer  meeting  was  one 
of  those  features,  and  a  great  many  churches  had  the 
same.  The  large  number  of  adults  that  were  brought 
into  the  Church,  and  the'absence  of  any  special  meas- 
ures, except  the  prayer  meetings,  was  another.  I 
think  that  in  our  Church  the  large  number  of  adults, 
was  the  most  striking  feature  of  all." 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


The  year  1858  is  always  referred  to  by  such  of 
the  members  of  this  Church  as  were  members  of  its 
congregation  at  that  time,  as  a  year  in  which  God's 
power  over  individual  men  was  manifested  in  most 
wonderful  ways. 

It  has  not  been  the  policy  of  the  Church  to  invite 
professional  evangelists  to  preach,  but,  when  there 
seemed  occasion  for  it,  to  call  in  from  other  churches 
pastors  who  were  specially  adapted.  Most  of  the 
preaching  in  the  seven  revivals  of  the  first  thirty 
years  of  the  Church  was  done  by  Dr.  Patterson  him- 
self. In  1845  the  interest  was  much  stimulated  by 
a  series  of  meetings  that  were  held  by  Evangelist 
Ayers  in  the  Frst  Presbyterian  Church,  but  in  which 
the  Second  Church  did  not  formally  unite.  The 
interest  in  the  First  Church  was  so  great  that  its 
influence  extended  throughout  the  community. 

In  the  winter  of  1876-7  Mr.  D.  L.  Moody  held  a 
series  of  meetings  in  a  building  called  the  Taber- 
nacle, now  Nos.  236  to  252  Monroe  street,  which  was 
placed  at  his  disposal  by  Mr.  John  V.  Farwell.  An 
immense  auditorium  was  provided,  and  there  were 
numerous  rooms  for  smaller  meetings  and  for  Chris- 
tian conversation  and  instruction.  The  pastors  of 
the  city  were  deeply  interested  in  the  meetings,  which 
were  free  from  excitement  and  were  profoundly  spir- 
itual. Dr.  Gibson,  then  pastor  of  the  Second  Church, 
entered  into  the  spirit  of  these  meetings  with  enthu- 
siasm. Many  of  the  members  of  the  Second  Church, 
sharing  their  pastor's  enthusiasm,  were  in  constant 
attendance  at  the  meetings,  lending  such  aid  to  the 


REVIVALS.  99 


work  as  they  might  be  able,  chiefly  in  conversation 
and  prayer,  in  the  inquiry  rooms,  with  those  who  had 
been  touched  by  the  spoken  word.  Under  God's 
guidance  many  hundreds  of  souls  were  brought  to 
Christ  during  these  weeks  of  quiet  but  earnest  work. 
The  additions  on  which  the  Church  has  at  all 
times  principally  relied  have  been  the  regular  ones 
from  the  children  of  families  of  the  Church,  who  have 
grown  up  in  the  instruction  of  the  Sunday-school 
and  from  members  of  churches  outside  of  Chicago 
who  have  come  to  the  city  to  live.  The  present 
active  membership  exceeds  eight  hundred. 


MISSIONARY  AND  BENEVOLENT  ORGANI- 
ZATIONS IN  THE  CHURCH. 


The  Dorcas  Society. 

The  Dorcas  Society  is  one  of  the  oldest  institu- 
tions connected  with  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church. 

Though  no  absolute  record  has  been  kept  of  its 
early  history,  its  origin  is  easily  traced  to  the  founda- 
tion of  the  church.  When  the  Second  Church  was 
organized,  a  number  of  the  ladies  who  had  worked 
untiringly  for  the  support  of  the  old  society,  as  well  as 
for  every  good  cause  brought  to  their  notice,  with 
willing  hearts  and  hands,  took  up  the  work  anew. 
Some  interesting  details  of  their  early  efforts  to  raise 
money  have  been  kindly  furnished  by  General  S.  L. 
Brown.  Although  these  efforts  were  mainly  in  con- 
nection with  the  First  Church,  it  may  not  be  amiss 
to  preserve  in  this  sketch  a  brief  chronicle  of  the 
parent  society. 

As  early  as  1835,  and  possibly  previous  to  that 
date,  these  ladies  began  the  good  work.  The  Church 
Sewing  Circle  was  formed,  and  met  once  each  month 
at  the  house  of  some  member,  when  methods  were 
planned  for  replenishing  the  treasury  from  time  to 
time,  and  much  sewing  was  accomplished. 

Articles  made  at  home,  and  those  contributed  by 
interested  friends,  were  collected  at  these  meetings. 


100 


THE   DORCAS   SOCIETY.  -  IOI 

At  the  close  of  the  afternoon  work  the  hostess  served 
a  light  repast,  to  which  the  gentlemen  were  invited. 
These  informal  gatherings  which  helped  to  keep  up 
the  genial  interest  were  at  that  time  the  social  feature 
of  the  Church  as  well. 

Fairs  were  given  annually,  and  when  preparing  for 
these  important  events  the  meetings  were  held  fort- 
nightly, and  the  members  of  the  Circle  spared  neither 
time  nor  energy  in  preparation.  The  first  one  was 
given  at  the  largest  private  house  then  in  Chicago, 
the  home  of  Mrs.  James  Boyer,  on  South  Water 
street,  between  Clark  and  La  Salle  streets.  As  all  of 
the  rooms  were  on  the  first  floor,  the  entire  house 
was  thrown  open  for  the  occasion.  The  second  fair 
was  held  in  the  real  estate  rooms  of  Augustus  Ganett, 
on  the  southwest  corner  of  Dearborn  and  South  Water 
streets. 

In  these  primitive  days  a  daily  newspaper  was 
unknown.  The  announcement  of  the  fair  was  made 
from  the  pulpit,  by  handbills,  and  on  the  auspicious 
day  a  man  on  horseback  rode  through  the  streets 
ringing  a  bell  and  calling  out  "The  Fair!"  "The 
Fair!" 

The  society  placed  cases  filled  with  fancy  work 
and  useful  articles  in  the  Tremont  House,  and  on 
two  steamers  plying  between  Chicago  and  Buffalo. 
In  this  way  much  of  their  handiwork  was  disposed  of 
and  good  prices  were  always  obtained. 

Through  these  various  methods  the  ladies  were 
enabled  to  assist  in  paying  the  current  expenses  of  the 
church,  calls  for  charity  were  gladly  responded  to  and 


IO2  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

the  families  of  the  Home  Missionaries  were  provided 
with  clothing  and  other  comforts.  Those  who  were 
assisted  in  the  early  history  of  the  church  were  located 
on  the  Fox  andsRock  rivers,  within  thirty  to  one  hun- 
dred miles  of  Chicago.  Places  like  Elgin,  Aurora, 
Rockford,  and  Waukegan  were  not  too  large  to  ask 
for  aid  in  sustaining  their  missionaries  and  in  form- 
ing churches  in  the  West. 

In  1842,  when  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church 
was  organized,  a  similar  society  was  formed  in  it. 
The  experience  of  those  who  came  to  the  new  congre- 
gation from  the  First  Church  was  of  great  assistance. 
Their  zeal  was  unabated,  and  even  the  prospect  of  a 
repetition  of  their  past  struggles  did  not  discourage 
them.  As  the  exchequer  was  somewhat  limited,  a 
portion  of  the  material  for  their  work  was  solicited 
from  the  merchant  princes  of  the  youthful  city,  who 
also  gave  shoes  and  stockings  for  distribution  among 
the  poor.  A  small  fee  and  a  fine  for  absence  were  col- 
lected from  each  member. 

The  new  society  undertook  to  furnish  the  Church 
and  a  fair  was  given  during  the  winter,  the  proceeds 
of  which  paid  for  the  lamps,  the  cushions  and  the 
pulpit  trimmings,  as  well  as  many  of  the  general 
expenses  incident  to  the  new  enterprise. 

In  the  course  of  a  few  years,  when  the  congrega- 
tion had  outgrown  the  church  on  Randolph  street, 
and  plans  for  a  larger  one  were  formed,  the  fixtures 
and  furnishings  were  again  promised  by  this  little 
band  of  women.  Everything  was  in  readiness,  when 


THE   DORCAS   SOCIETY.  103 

the  first  stone  church  in  Chicago  was  erected  and 
dedicated. 

Two  gothic  chairs,  now  in  the  lecture  room  of  the 
present  church,  still  remain  as  witnesses  of  their 
perseverance  and  good-will.  They  were  removed  a 
week  before  the  fire  of  October,  1871,  and  are  all  that 
is  left  of  the  furnishings  of  the  spotted  church. 

At  the  time  the  church  was  sold,  an  agreement 
was  made  that  these  chairs  should  be  retained  and 
preserved  as  testimonials  of  the  love  and  usefulness 
of  those  whose  voices  are  silent  and  whose  places  are 
vacant  in  this  circle  of  Christian  workers. 

As  the  years  passed  and  one  after  the  other 
dropped  from  the  roll,  new  faces  filled  the  vacant 
places  and  the  work  was  carried  on  with  the  same 
zeal  and  earnestness.  Naturally  the  field  of  labor 
had  enlarged  with  the  growth  of  the  city  and  church. 
The  society  became  more  firmly  established  and  held 
its  meetings  in  the  church  parlors.  The  good  old- 
fashioned  Bible  name  of  Dorcas  was  given  to  it,  a 
regular  corps  of  officers  was  appointed  each  year,  and 
a  fee  of  $1.00,  which  was  expected  from  every  female 
member  of  the  congregation,  together  with  volun- 
tary contributions,  kept  the  treasury  in  funds. 

The  war  record  of  the  Dorcas  Society  is  most 
honorable.  Nothing  within  its  power  to  accomplish 
was  left  undone  for  the  relief  of  the  wounded  soldiers. 
After  the  great  calamity  which  visited  Chicago  in 
1871,  its  members  were  among  the  most  ardent 
workers  for  the  sufferers,  contributing  clothing  to 
the  Relief  and  Aid  Society,  supplying  food  and  fur- 


IO4  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

nishing  temporary  sleeping  quarters  in  the  church  in 
which  they  were  worshiping.  Its  presiding  officer  at 
that  trying  time  was  Mrs.  Ellen  Ely,  who  wielded 
the  scissors  as  a  general  would  his  sword,  inciting 
those  about  her  to  constant  action  and  accomplishing 
with  their  aid  untold  relief.  The  number  of  gar- 
ments cut  by  her  inspired  hands  is  one  of  the  legends 
of  the  society. 

It  was  deemed  best  some  years  since  to  appoint  a 
city  missionary,  who  became  of  great  assistance  in 
reaching  familes  in  distress  and  distributing  the 
articles  made.  In  1881  Miss  Hatch  was  appointed 
to  the  office,  and  has  served  in  that  capacity  with 
much  efficiency  up  to  the  present  time. 

For  a  few  seasons  past  the  old  routine  has  been 
somewhat  changed.  The  weekly  morning  meetings 
have  been  abandoned,  and  the  entire  day  once  each 
fortnight,  from  the  ist  of  November  until  April,  has 
*  been  devoted  to  the  work.  A  simple  lunch  is  served 
by  three  ladies  selected  at  the  previous  meeting,  who 
act  as  hostesses,  and  bear  the  expense.  This  pro- 
motes sociability  and  the  results  are  most  satisfactory. 

Several  of  the  public  institutions  of  the  city  look 
to  the  Dorcas  Society  for  assistance.  The  Presbyte- 
rian Hospital,  the  Chicago  Orphan  Asylum,  the 
Home  for  the  Friendless,  and  the  School  Children's 
Aid  Society  all  expect  a  certain  amount  of  work  done 
for  them  every  year  from  material  furnished  at  their 
expense.  Other  institutions  are  assisted  in  this 
manner  occasionally,  and  appeals  from  missions  are 
always  responded  to. 


WOMAN'S  FOREIGN  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY.         105 

The  home  missionary  boxes  are  supplied  every 
year,  and  the  aid  thus  given  extends  over  a  territory 
reaching  from  Alaska  to  the  freedmen  in  North 
Carolina,  and  including  Washington,  Dakota,  Indian 
Territory  and  many  of  the  intervening  states.  The 
letters  of  acknowledgment  received  have  been,  in 
many  instances,  most  touching,  and  the  reward  to 
those  who  have  given  of  their  abundance  correspond- 
ingly sweet. 

The  work  which  has  been  done  by  this  society 
has  been  of  great  benefit  to  those  who  have  done  it, 
as  well  as  to  those  whose  needs  have  been  so  gener- 
ously relieved  by  it,  and  the  spirit  which  has  pre- 
vailed at  all  times  has  been  worthy  of  the  spirit  in 
which  it  was  founded. 

From  this  summary  of  the  work  of  this  society 
it  will  be  seen  that  the  mantle  of  its  valiant  founders 
has  not  fallen  unworthily. 

Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Society. 

The  year  1870  marks  the  beginning  in  the  North- 
west among  Presbyterians  of  organized  and  far-reach- 
ing work  for  our  sisters  of  the  Orient,  and  the  Second 
Church  has  the  honor  of  being  the  first  centre. 

In  1870  the  Woman's  Presbyterian  Board  of  Mis- 
sions of  the  Northwest  was  organized  in  the  parlors 
of  this  Church  through  the  efforts  of  a  few  ladies 
from  this  and  other  churches.  Early  in  1871  ten 
ladies  met  for  the  purpose  of  organizing  the  Woman's 
Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  the  Second  Church. 
Very  little  business  was  done  at  the  first  meeting 


IO6  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

except  to  elect  officers  and  to  signify  devotion  to  the 
cause  of  sending  the  "  open  Bible "  to  the  women 
beyond  the  seas  who  could  not  be  reached  in  their 
seclusion  by  the  men  already  doing  missionary  work. 

Mrs.  R.  W.  Patterson,  the  wife  of  the  pastor,  was 
the  President  of  the  first  society  in  this  Church,  with 
Mrs.  Asher  Carter  as  Vice-President,  and  Miss  E.  C. 
Hill,  Secretary  and  Treasurer.  It  is  worthy  of  note 
that  in  the  nearly  twenty-three  years,  the  society  has 
had  only  six  Presidents.  Following  Mrs.  Patterson 
were  Mrs.  William  Blair,  Mrs.  Albert  Keep,  Mrs.  B. 
A.  Ballard,  Mrs.  G.  A.  Harmount,  and  the  present 
incumbent,  Mrs.  T.  B.  Blackstone.  The  contributions 
for  the  first  year  amounted  to  $613.  Great  interest 
in  Persia  had  been  awakened  in  the  society  by  the 
missionary  work  of  Mrs.  Sarah  J.  Rhea,  now  so  well 
known,  and  the  society  decided  to  send  its  first  offer- 
ing to  build  a  chapel  in  Tabriz,  Persia. 

There  was,  however,  still  foreign  missionary  work 
to  do  at  home,  for  the  American  Indians  were  then 
considered  foreign,  and  all  missionary  work  for  them 
was  carried  on  by  the  Foreign  Board.  The  following 
year  and  for  many  years  the  society  paid  the  salary 
of  Miss  Calhoun,  a  missionary  to  the  Sioux  Indians. 
Some  new  work  was  added  each  year  as  the  contribu- 
tions grew  in  size  and  number.  They  sent  $200  to 
help  toward  the  building  of  a  house  in  Tabriz,  Persia, 
for  a  missionary  home,  which  was  occupied  by  the 
Rhea  family;  later  land  was  bought  for  $342  for  a 
school  building  also  in  Tabriz,  and  still  later  $400 
were  given  to  conduct  this  same  school. 


WOMAN'S  FOREIGN  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY.        107 

After  the  salary  of  Miss  Calhoun  was  discontinued, 
the  salary  of  Miss  Poage,  of  Oroomiah,  Persia,  was 
paid  by  this  society  for  a  number  of  years.  The  in- 
terest in  Persia  never  flagged  and  at  present  this 
society  is  supporting  there  five  village  schools  at  a 
total  cost  of  $80  per  year,  besides  the  boarding  school 
and  kindergarten  under  the  care  of  Mrs.  Van  Hook, 
at  a  cost  of  $986  per  year.  In  addition  to  the  work  in 
Persia  the  society  has  paid  for  the  education  of  a  girl 
in  Cheefoo,  China,  costing  $80  per  year,  a  Bible 
Reader  in  India  $53  per  year,  a  school  in  Shanghai 
$25,  a  school  in  Tripoli  $70,  a  school  building  in  the 
Laos,  toward  which  they  paid  $215,  besides  several 
hundreds  of  dollars  to  City  and  Home  Missions,  be- 
fore the  organization  of  the  Home  Missionary  Society. 
Many  large  and  valuable  boxes  have  been  sent  from 
time  to  time  to  those  in  need.  During  the  past  year 
the  society  raised  $1,974.80,  which  was  distributed  as 
follows : 

Lodiana,  India,  boys'  school $  30  oo 

Allahabad,  India,  girls'  school 50  oo 

Cheung  Mai  Laos,  boys'  school 25  oo 

Tabriz,  Persia,  school  and  kindergarten 986  oo 

Seoul,  Korea,  salary  Mrs.  Underwood 400  oo 

General  work  decided  upon  by  the  Board. .  .  .   483  80 

The  running  expenses  of  the  society  have  usually 
been  paid  from  a  separate  purse. 

The  aggregate  contributions  of  the  society  have 
been  $28,000,  or  an  average  for  the  twenty-two  years 
of  $1,272. 


IO8  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

Young  Ladies'  foreign  Missionary  Society. 

The  Young  Ladies'  Foreign  Missionary  Society 
was  organized  under  the  guidance  of  Mrs.  Wm.  Blair, 
at  whose  house  the  first  meeting  was  held,  April  16, 
1883.  Twenty-two  young  ladies  were  present. 

The  object  of  the  society  was  "to  secure  system- 
atic contributions  to  Foreign  Missions,  and  to  dissemi- 
nate missionary  intelligence ;  also  to  encourage  effort 
in  the  church."  The  payment  of  $i  constituted  a 
yearly  membership,  and  the  society  reported  annually 
to  the  Woman's  Presbyterian  Board  of  Missions.  The 
first  President  of  the  society  was  Miss  Crumbaugh. 

During  the  eight  years  covered  by  the  active  and 
successful  work  of  this  society,  much  work  was  done 
which  was  not  less  useful  to  those  who  gave  of  their 
time  and  money  than  to  those  who  received. 

The  society  from  the  funds  contributed  to  its 
treasury  has  assisted  Miss  Burdick's  work  and  that 
of  her  successor  in  Mexico,  Mrs.  Warren's  school  in 
India,  Mrs.  Coopward  in  her  work  in  Mexico,  and 
Miss  Brown  in  Dakota,  the  Mohammedan  girls' 
school  in  Lodiana,  India,  the  mission  work  in 
Fenullo,  Mexico,  and  Miss  Haworth  in  Kanazawa, 
Japan. 

In  1889  the  society  was  made  the  recipient  of 
$25,000,  a  gift  from  Mr.  Reid,  in  the  name  of  his 
deceased  wife,  to  be  used  for  the  spread  of  the  gospel 
in  foreign  lands.  This  sum  the  society  voted  to  be 
used  in  the  building  of  a  church  in  Chieng  Mai,  Laos. 

The  society  has  been  addressed  by  Miss  Jacobs,  of 
Mexico ;  Miss  Hartwell,  of  Siam ;  Mrs.   Robertson, 


WOMAN'S  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY.  109 

a  missionary  among  the  Creek  Indians,  who  had 
translated  the  New  Testament  into  the  Creek  lan- 
guage ;  Sitt  Ramza,  a  Syrian  ;  Mrs.  T.  W.  Harvey, 
and  Dr.  McPherson. 

The  meetings  have  been  held  variously  in  the 
church  parlors  and  at  the  homes  of  members. 

At  the  annual  meeting,  March,  1891,  it  was  voted 
to  unite  with  Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Society, 
and  the  two  bodies  have  met  together  since  that  time. 

The  society  has  distributed  upwards  of  $1,700 
during  the  eight  years  of  its  existence. 

Woman's  Home  Missionary  Society. 

The  first  movement  looking  towards  organized 
woman's  work  for  home  missions  in  the  Presbyterian 
Church  was  in  the  Assembly  which  met  in  Cleveland 
in  1873,  but  not  until  1879  do  we  hear  of  the  forma- 
tion of  a  society  to  undertake  for  the  Church  in  the 
home  field  work  similar  to  that  done  by  women  in  the 
foreign  field.  That  year  the  General  Assembly  gave 
into  the  hands  of  the  women  of  the  Church  the 
school  work  among  what  were  designated  as  the 
"exceptional  populations"  of  our  country,  viz.:  the 
Mormons,  Mexicans  and  Indian  tribes. 

The  same  year  a  society  was  formed,  having  its 
headquarters  in  New  York,  under  the  direction  of  a 
board  of  ladies  called  the  Woman's  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  Home  Missions,  auxiliary  to  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  the 
formation  of  branch  societies  in  the  churches  of  the 
country  was  begun. 


IIO  SECOND -PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

In  the  autumn  of  1883  the  ladies  of  the  Second 
Church  felt  that  the  time  had  come  to  organize  a  branch 
society,  and,  at  their  suggestion,  a  meeting  of  those 
interested  was  called  by  the  pastor.  In  response 
between  forty  and  fifty  ladies  gathered  in  the  lecture- 
room  of  the  Church.  Dr.  McPherson  presided  at 
the  meeting  and  expressed  his  pleasure  that  the 
ladies  were  ready  to  take  up  this  line  of  work. 

A  nominating  committee  was  selected  and  they 
brought  before  the  meeting  the  following  names  for 
officers  of  the  new  society: 

President — Mrs.  Edward  Ely. 
Vice-President — Mrs.  F.  D.  Gray. 
Corresponding  Secretary — Mrs.  P.  A.  Avery. 
Recording  Secretary — Mrs.  G.  A.  Harmount. 
Treasurer — Mrs.  Wm.  B.  Walker. 
These  officers  were  formally  elected. 
The  society  was  to  be  auxiliary  to  the  Woman's 
Executive    Committee,  and   to  include   in   its   care 
every  branch  of  woman's  work  in  the  church,  except 
the  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  which  was  auxiliary 
to  the  Woman's  Board  of  the  Northwest.     Monthly 
meetings  were  decided  on,  and  reports  from  the  various 
branches  of  work  were  to  be  presented  at  the  meet- 
ings.    Funds  were  to  be  raised  for  the  various  under- 
takings by  the  ladies,  and  reported  through  the  Pres- 
byterial  Society  to  the  Woman's  Executive  Commit- 
tee in  New  York. 

At  the  monthly  meeting  the  following  February 
the  Constitution  of  the  Woman's  Executive  Com- 
mittee was  formally  adopted,  and  the  Woman's  Home 


WOMAN  S   HOME   MISSIONARY   SOCIETY.  1 1  I 

Missionary  Society  of  the  Second  Church  became  an 
established  agency  for  work. 

Small  envelopes  are  placed  in  each  pew  annually, 
giving  every  lady  an  opportunity  to  offer  monthly 
contributions.  These  envelopes  may  be  placed  in  the 
plates  as  they  are  passed,  or  in  the  boxes  at  the 
church  door. 

During  the  nine  years  of  its  existence  the  growth 
of  the  society  has  been  commendable,  its  contribu- 
tions have  increased  from  year  to  year,  and  it  has 
thus  been  able  to  reach  out  to  new  lines  of  work  con- 
tinually. 

Ten  meetings  a  year  have  been  held,  including  a 
praise  meeting  in  November,  and  the  annual  meeting 
in  March,  at  which  time  officers  are  elected  for  the 
year.  At  these  meetings  articles  of  interest  concern- 
ing the  work  are  read,  and  plans  for  carrying 
on  the  work  of  the  society  are  proposed  and  dis- 
cussed. At  the  praise  meeting  some  one  from  outside 
the  Church,  has  always  been  invited  to  address  the 
ladies,  and  a  social  hour  has  followed. 

In  the  autumn  of  1889  the  society  met  with  an 
irreparable  loss  in  the  death  of  its  honored  and 
beloved  president,  Mrs.  Ely,  who  had  led  the  work  so 
successfully  through  its  formative  stage,  ever  rinding 
new  paths  of  work  and  encouraging  those  whom  she 
led  to  undertake  more  for  the  Master. 

The  society  now  supports  -through  its  members 
a  teacher  among  the  Mormons  at  Payson,  Utah ; 
two  scholarships  in  a  school  at  Sitka,  Alaska ;  two 
scholarships  at  Tucson,  Arizona ;  one  scholarship  at 


112  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

Muscogee,  Indian  Territory ;  one  scholarship  at  Cot- 
ton Plant,  Arkansas. 

The  Presbyterian  Hospital. 

While  the  healing  and  helping  influence  of  the 
Presbyterian  Hospital  of  Chicago  is  entirely  unsec- 
tarian,  it  is  dependent  almost  entirely  for  its  mainte- 
nance upon  the  generosity  of  the  Presbyterian  churches 
of  Chicago  and  vicinity.  The  Board  of  Managers  is 
chosen  from  the  men  and  women  of  the  several 
churches. 

The  institution  during  the  nine  years  of  its  ex- 
istence has  cared  for  over  10,000  patients.  The  aim 
of  the  Managers  is  to  make  this  charity  as  far  reach- 
ing as  possible,  and  to  do  the  greatest  good  with  the 
means  at  their  command ;  and  their  ambition  is 
some  day  to  add  "  free  "  to  the  name  over  its  door. 

The  receipts  of  the  Hospital  are  obtained  from  pay- 
patients,  annual  endowments,  interest  on  invested 
funds  for  the  support  of  free  beds  and  straight-out 
donations.  The  most  beautiful  ward  in  the  Hospital 
was  endowed  and  furnished  by  a  woman  of  the  Sec- 
ond Church,  and  thus  during  her  lifetime  and  in  her 
youth  has  she  been  able  to  make  a  memory  blessed 
to  many. 

It  is  to  the  indefatigable  interest  of  a  woman  of 
the  Second  Church  that  the  sum  of  money  necessary 
to  support  a  bed  for  children — named  "Sunshine 
Bed  " — has  grown  to  such  large  proportions.  Among 
the  members  of  the  Second  Church  supporting  free 
beds  may  be  mentioned  Mrs.  Barbara  Armour,  The 


THE   WORK   OF  THE   YOUNG   PEOPLE. 


Margaret  McKay  Bed  ;  Mrs.  Bertha  Cobb  Armour, 
The  William  Armour  Memorial  Ward;  Mr.  S.  B. 
Cobb,  The  Mrs.  S.  B.  Cobb  Bed  ;  Mr.  Thomas  Mur- 
dock,  The  Margaret  Murdock  Bed;  Mrs.  A.  A. 
Sprague,  and  Mrs.  O.  S.  A.  Sprague,  who,  in  con- 
nection with  Mrs.  Hale,  support  two  beds,  one  for 
trained  nurses  and  one  for  working  women.  Through 
the  generosity  of  the  late  John  Crerar,  the  Hospital 
receive  a  bequest  of  $25,000. 

The  congregation  of  the  Second  Church  supports 
a  bed  for  ministers  and  their  families,  and  the  Sabbath- 
school  one  for  children. 

As  the  number  of  free-patients  treated  always  ex- 
ceeds the  number  of  free  beds,  the  friends  of  the  Hos- 
pital must  be  called  upon  to  make  up  the  deficit. 
There  are  several  in  this  Church  who  are  always 
ready  to  respond  with  generosity  to  this  appeal. 

The  Second  Church  is  represented  on  the  Hos- 
pital Board  by  the  following:  Thomas  Dent,  William 
Blair,  John  S.  Gould,  Albert  A.  Sprague,  Mrs.  Will- 
iam Armour,  Mrs.  R.  B.  Crouch,  Miss  Virginia  Dun- 
ham, Mrs.  John  S.  Gould,  Mrs.  O.  S.  A.  Sprague,  Mrs. 
Joseph  Matteson,  Mrs.  J.  S.  Knox,  Mrs.  E.  S.  Pike, 
Mrs.  T.  A.  Shaw,  Mrs.  A.  A.  Sprague,  Miss  Nellie 
Helm,  Mrs.  Wallace  Barker. 

The   Work  of  the   Young  People  of  the  Church. 

Since  the  organization  of  this  Church  it  has 
always  had  a  band  of  young  Christian  workers  ready 
to  engage  in  every  good  work  ;  through  their  influ- 


114  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

ence  many  young  people  have  united  with  the  Church 
and  become  active  members. 

Their  work  in  the  Sabbath-school  of  the  Church, 
and  in  establishing  Mission  Sabbath-schools,  is  re- 
ferred to  in  another  part  of  this  history,  where  it  is 
shown  that  in  the  year  1843,  one  Year  after  the  or- 
ganization of  the  Church,  the  younger  members  went, 
in  obedience  to  the  Saviour's  command,  and  laid  the 
foundations  of  an  institution  which  has  been  greatly 
blessed,  and  which  has  been  a  stimulus  to  other 
churches  who  followed  in  the  Mission  Sabbath-school 
work  in  various  parts  of  the  city. 

This  Church  in  its  first  year  sent  out  a  band  of 
young  men,  some  of  whom  had  been  for  years  labor- 
ing among  the  seamen.  They  boarded  vessels  on 
Sabbath  mornings ;  invited  officers  and  men  to  their 
house  of  worship,  and  distributed  Bibles,  tracts  and 
papers.  This  work  increased  with  the  growth  of  the 
city,  and  the  young  people  of  other  churches  united 
as  laborers  with  us  in  this  work.  These  young  men 
soon  found  that  a  church  was  needed  for  sailors  and 
their  families,  and  steps  were  taken  in  1844  to  build  a 
Bethel  church.  In  this  they  were  aided  by  Chris- 
tians of  all  denominations,  and  a  modest  church  build- 
ing was  erected  and  paid  for.  The  Western  Seamen's 
Friends  Society  at  Buffalo  provided  the  Chaplain. 
The  flag,  with  "  Bethel  "  in  white  letters  in  a  field 
of  blue,  floated  from  the  mast,  bidding  welcome 
to  all  who  sailed  the  lakes  to  enter  this  house  of 
worship.  A  church  was  organized  and  converted  sea- 
men became  the  most  effective  workers,  and  were 


THE   WORK   OF  THE   YOUNG   PEOPLE. 


able  to  take  into  their  own  hands  this  Bethel  work. 
The  Mission  Sabbath-school  was  under  the  care  of 
the  young  men  of  the  Church,  and  occupied  the 
Bethel  until  1857. 

In  the  year  1845,  Paul  Anderson,  a  young  Norwe- 
gian, who  was  a  teacher  in  this  school,  took  from  it  a 
large  number  of  his  countrymen,  and  with  them  or- 
ganized the  First  Evangelical  Lutheran  Church  in 
this  city.  Aided  by  the  members  of  the  Second 
Church  and  others,  they  erected  a  large  brick  build- 
ing, and  that  society,  now  so  prosperous,  is  largely 
indebted  for  its  beginnings  to  the  faithful  labors  of 
these  young  people. 

This  work  among  the  seamen  and  visitation  of 
their  families  was  only  one  department  of  Christian 
labor  in  which  the  working  forces  of  all  the  churches 
in  the  city  were  enlisted  when  this  Church  was 
organized. 

The  City  Tract  Society  had  for  years  been  actively 
at  work.  The  city  was  divided  into  districts,  and  vis- 
itors from  all  denominations  united  in  making 
house-to-house  visitations,  inviting  the  parents  to 
some  place  of  worship,  and  gathering  the  children 
into  the  Sunday-school.  Monthly  meetings  were 
held  for  prayer  and  consultation,  and  in  this  way 
every  part  of  the  city  was  reached. 

In  the  winter  the  poor  were  supplied  with  clothing 
by  the  ladies'  sewing  circles.  Food  was  supplied 
from  funds  collected  and  left  for  distribution  in  the 
hands  of  the  committee  of  this  City  Tract  Society. 
In  this  plan  of  work  the  members  of  this  Church, 


Il6  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

young  and  old,  took  a  very  active  part.  This  society 
had  a  continuous  existence  until  the  larger  organiza- 
tions for  charity  assumed  the  duties  and  supplied  the 
poor  and  unfortunate. 

This  visitation  opened  another  field  for  Christian 
work;  cottage  prayer-meetings  were  held  in  the  dis- 
trict by  visitors  to  whose  hearts  the  Lord  had  given 
of  His  spirit,  and  the  young  people  of  the  Church 
were  able  to  carry  the  news  of  life  and  hope  into 
many  homes.  This  led  on  and  united  the  young 
people  of  this  and  every  church  in  meetings  for 
prayer  and  united  labor.  The  work  grew  on  their 
hands  and  out  of  it  all  came  in  years  Christian  Asso- 
ciations and  the  various  forms  of  Evangelical  work 
now  so  fruitful  in  this  city. 

While  all  these  forms  of  work  were  in  progress, 
the  subject  of  temperance  and  "  total  abstinence  "  was 
just  beginning  to  demand  a  hearing.  The  young 
people  of  this  Church  aided  and  sustained  temperance 
societies  in  the  Sabbath-schools  and  in  the  city.  They 
were  among  the  first  to  carry  their  principles  to  the 
ballot-box  and  to  stand  firm  for  this  cause  in  politics 
when  the  issue  forced  them  to  that  point. 

The  Young  People's  Association,  which  was  or- 
ganized early  in  Dr.  McPherson's  pastorate,  carried 
on  the  work  in  the  same  spirit  in  which  it  had  for- 
merly been  carried  on,  and  undertook  a  partial  charge 
of  the"  social  work  of  the  church.  After  the  forma- 
tion of  the  Christian  Endeavor  societies  throughout 
the  country,  the  Young  People's  Association  adopted 
the  constitution  and  became  a  working  branch  of  the 


INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOL.  1 17 


great  national  organization  which  has  accomplished 
so  much  for  the  Christian  education  of  all  the 
churches. 

Industrial  School. 

For  msfrny  years  an  industrial  school  was  held,  on 
Saturday  mornings,  in  the  Sunday-school  rooms  of 
the  Church.  This  school  was  largely  attended,  and 
was  very  useful  to  the  children  gathered  from  the 
vicinity  of  the  Church,  though  not  as  a  rule  belong- 
ing to  the  families  of  the  members  of  this  Church. 
The  ladies  of  the  Church  gave  their  time  freely  to 
the  work  of  instruction,  and  much  valuable  informa- 
tion in  domestic  science  was  imparted.  It  was  found, 
in  1891,  that  conditions  had  so  changed  that  the  work 
could  be  more  profitably  continued  through  other 
agencies. 


MUSIC. 


The  music  of  the  Second  Church,  always  of  a  high 
order,  has  improved  as  the  tastes  of  the  congregation 
demanded  and  the  facilities  of  the  times  admitted. 
Its  history  may  properly  be  divided  into  three 
periods. 

The  first  was  from  the  organization  of  the  Church, 
in  1842,  to  the  employment  of  the  quartette  choir 
about  two  years  after  the  first  organ  was  introduced 
in  1854.  The  second  period  was  from  the  time  when 
the  first  quartette  choir  was  employed,  in  1856,  until 
the  union  of  the  Church  with  the  Olivet  Church  in 
1871,  and  the  fire  which  followed  a  week  later,  when 
the  quartette  was  broken  up.  The  third  was  from 
that  eventful  time  until  the  present.  The  choir  of 
the  old  Chu-rch  on  Randolph  street  was  a  feature 
peculiar  to  the  time.  The  baton  and  tuning-fork 
were  handled  by  Mr.  T.  B.  Carter.  He  was  assisted 
by  several  very  fine  soprano  and  alto  voices,  includ- 
ing Miss  Cornelia  Hoyt,  Miss  Helen  Root,  Miss 
Joanna  Smith,  Miss  Hannah  Smith,  Miss  Abby 
McCagg,  Miss  'Elizabeth  V.  Moore,  Miss  Louisa  Ship- 
man,  Miss  Aurelia  Case,  Miss  Sarah  E.  Marsh,  Miss 
Louisa  Cook,  Mrs.  Harlow  Kimball,  Miss  Harriet 
Kimball,  Miss  Louisa  Newhall  and  other  ladies. 

Messrs.  William  H.  Brown,  B.  W.  Raymond, 
Asher  Carter,  Ambrose  Wright,  Lewis  C.  Baker,  T. 

118 


MUSIC.  119 

W.  Goodrich,  E.  H.  Sears,  Alfred  L.  Cowles,  William 
E.  Stitnson,  William  Bross,  John  A.  Bross,  J.  B. 
Sutton  and  others  were  among  the  bass  and  tenor 
members  of  the  choir. 

Frank  H.  Hastings  and  N.  B.  Cook  played  the 
first  and  second  flutes,  and  James  Averell  and  Josiah 
H.  Reed  played  the  violoncello  and  double  bass. 

These  persons  were  members  of  the  old  choir  at 
intervals  during  the  first  period  of  fourteen  years,  or 
until  the  introduction  of  the  first  quartette. 

Organs  are  now  considered  necessary  for  the  best 
devotional  and  musical  effect  in  sustaining  the  con- 
gregation in  its  worship,  but  the  little  Second  Church 
in  its  early  days  could  not  afford  the  expense  of  so 
great  a  luxury.  Reed  organs  were  then  unknown, 
and  pipe  organs  cost  too  much.  Notwithstanding 
this  want  the  musical  part  of  the  devotional  services 
of  the  Church  was  conducted  with  a  harmony  and 
devotional  spirit  seldom  surpassed  in  the  churches  of 
the  West  at  that  early  day. 

The  leading  men  of  the  congregation  who  had 
musical  taste  or  ability  were  found  in  the  choir  loft, 
taking  an  active  part  in  this  delightful  part  of  public 
worship,  encouraged  as  they  were  by  Dr.  Patterson, 
who  had  had  many  years  of  valuable  musical  experi- 
ence and  culture  in  his  college  days. 

After  the  removal  to  the  corner  of  Wabash  avenue 
and  Washington  street,  the  old  choir  was  continued 
until  the  introduction  of  the  quartette,  under  the 
same  leadership,  and  with  many  of  the  old  members. 

After  occupying  the  new  church  for  a  few  years 


I2O  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

the  demand  was  made  by  the  congregation  for  an 
organ  and  a  quartette  choir.  The  old  choir  had 
served  its  time  and  purpose,  and  must  give  way  to 
the  prevailing  spirit  of  improvement,  which  de- 
manded a  higher  order  of  church  music. 

In  1854  a  fine  organ,  costing  about  $6,000,  was 
placed  in  the  newly  prepared  loft,  behind  the  pulpit. 
The  first  organist  was  Mr.  Thomas  Crouch,  who  con- 
tinued until  after  the  first  quartette  was  organized. 
The  new  quartette,  for  a  number  of  years  composed 
of  Mrs.  Thomas  as  soprano,  Mrs.  Matteson,  alto, 
Charles  H.  Seaverns,  tenor,  Henry  Johnson,  bass, 
and  H.  W.  Chant,  organist,  was  one  of  the  best 
quartette  choirs  that  ever  sang  in  the  West.  No  one 
who  ever  heard  it  will  forget  the  sweetness  of  the 
soprano  voice,  nor  the  exceeding  richness  of  the  alto. 
Few  churches  have  ever  been  favored  with  better 
church  music.  Since  the  introduction  of  the  first 
quartette  the  Church  has  been  favored  with  the  ser- 
vices of  the  following  singers,  many  of  whom,  espe- 
cially those  whose  term  of  service  has  been  long,  are 
remembered  with  feelings  of  sincere  appreciation  and 
gratitude : 

SOPRANOS. 

Mrs.  Thomas,  Miss  Lewis, 

Miss  Eddy,  Miss  Fisk, 

Miss  Nichols,  Miss  Annie  Main, 

Miss  Fannie  Root,  Mrs.  O.  R.  Fox, 

Mrs.  J.  A  Farwell  (19  years),          Miss  Jackson, 
Miss  Helen  Root,  *Mrs.  Ginevra  Johnstone  Bishop. 

ALTOS. 

Mrs.  Matteson,  Miss  Louisa  Whitlock, 

Miss  Julia  Wells,  Miss  Nettie  French, 

Mrs.  Balfour,  *Mrs.  Annie  (Roumeiss)  Thacker. 

*  Members  of  the  present  choir. 


MUSIC. 


121 


Mr.  Thomas  Crouch, 
Mr.  C.  A.  Haven, 
Mr.  H.  G.  Bird, 

Mr.  C.  H.  Seaverns, 
Capt.  A.  R.  Sabin, 

Mr.  Henry  Johnson, 
*Mr.  John  M.  Hubbard, 


ORGANISTS. 

Mr.  W.  H.  Chant, 
Mr.  D.  N.  Hood, 
*Mr.  A.  F.  McCarrel. 

TENORS. 

Mr.  G.  A.  Seaverns, 
*Mr.  R.  T.  Howard  (21  years). 
BASS. 

Mr.  William  Sprague, 
Mr.  H.  L.  Sloan, 


(30  years,  not  continuous).        Mr.  Cowles. 

It  will  not  be  invidious  to  mention  here  how  much 
of  kindly  remembrance  is  given  to  Mrs.  Farwell 
whose  consecrated  voice  so  long  delighted  the  mem- 
bers of  the  congregation  and  led  their  thoughts  to 
higher  things,  nor  to  speak  of  the  appreciation  in 
which  the  efforts  of  the  present  members  of  the  choir 
are  held. 


*  Members  of  the  present  choir. 


PRESBYTERIANS  AND  CONGREGATION- 
ALISTS. 


The  Plan  of  Union. 

In  the  early  settlement  of  Ohio  and  the  North- 
western States,  a  Plan  of  Union  between  the  Presby- 
terian and  Congregational  Churches  was  perfected 
and  adopted  in  order  to  prevent  friction  between  these 
two  denominations.  This  plan  aimed  to  provide  for 
the  settlement  of  Congregational  ministers  over  Pres- 
byterian Churches,  and  vice  versa,  and  to  save  the 
great  expense  that  would  be  entailed  on  the  Home 
Missionary  Society  by  the  multiplication  of  feeble 
denominational  churches. 

Galena  Seminary. 

In  1850  the  denominations  had  carried  their  dis- 
satisfaction with  the  Plan  of  Union  so  far,  that  in 
a  movement  of  the  Presbyterians  to  found  a  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  under  the  leadership  of  Rev.  S.  G. 
Specs,  it  was  voted  by  a  committee  to  which  the  ques- 
tion was  referred,  that  the  seminary  should  be  dis- 
tinctly Presbyterian.  It  was  to  be  located  at  Galena, 
and  made  a  feeble  attempt  at  starting  there ;  but  as 
Galena  was  selected  because  it  was  "  so  central  to 
Kansas  and  Nebraska,"  and  as  the  development  of 
the  country  was  so  different  from  the  development 
which  Mr.  Specs  had  in  mind,  the  Galena  Seminary 

122 


LAKE  FOREST  UNIVERSITY.  123 

was  never  built  above  the  foundation.  Meantime  the 
Congregational  brethren  were  establishing  the  Chi- 
cago Theological  Seminary,  on  the  West  Side,  now 
become  a  useful  and  famous  institution,  which  has 
been  surpassed  in  growth  and  influence  among  the 
newer  Theological  Seminaries  only  by  the  McCor- 
mick  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

Lake  Forest  University. 

In  1855,  Dr.  Patterson,  who  felt  the  need  of  an 
educational  institution  embodying  the  advantages  of 
a  university,  in  the  vicinity  of  Chicago,  proposed  the 
scheme  for  the  organization  of  such  an  institution. 
After  consulting  with  Rev.  Ira  M.  Weed,  and  Rev. 
Harvey  Curtis  of  the  First  Church,  they  visited  many 
localities  and  spent  much  time  in  a  careful  examina- 
tion and  consideration  of  the  localities  which  seemed 
favorable  for  the  work.  In  the  course  of  their  inves- 
tigations that  part  of  the  country  now  occupied  by 
Lake  Forest  was  discovered,  and  was  regarded  as 
most  desirable  for  such  an  institution  as  they  had  in 
view. 

Through  the  influence  and  efforts  of  Dr.  Patter- 
son and  others,  members  of  his  Church  and  of  the 
First  Church,  the  property  was  purchased,  and  the 
Lake  Forest  enterprise  placed  on  a  successful  basis. 
The  property,  consisting  of  about  1,300  acres,  was 
divided  into  lots,  half  of  which  were  to  belong  to  the 
"  Lake  Forest  University,"  and  half  to  belong  to  the 
members  of  the  "Lake  Forest  Association,"  who  paid 
the  money  to  make  the  purchase  of  the  land. 


124  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

The  "Lake  Forest  Association"  was  organized  and 
chartered  to  hold  and  dispose  of  this  property.  Mem- 
bers of  the  Second  Church  were  the  largest  pur- 
chasers of  these  lots,  though  members  of  the  First 
Church  and  of  other  churches  in  the  city  were  pur- 
chasers at  the  public  sale. 

The  institutions  at  Lake  Forest,  in  the  various 
degrees  of  usefulness  which  they  have  experienced, 
have  always  been  watched  with  careful  and  anxious 
interest  by  the  Second  Church. 

Although  the  realization  of  the  University  idea 
was  so  long  delayed  by  the  financial  disasters  from 
which  many  who  wished  to  aid  the  University  have 
suffered,  the  growth  for  the  past  ten  years  has  been 
very  rapid,  and  the  University,  with  excellent  equip- 
ment in  all  its  departments,  is  taking  a  foremost 
place  in  the  educational  system  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church. 

Religious  Newspapers. 

The  first  religious  newspaper  of  any  note  in  Chi- 
cago was  the  outgrowth  of  an  effort  made  by  members 
of  the  Second  Church,  who  contributed  nearly  all  the 
money  to  start  the  enterprise. 

It  was  in  1846  that  the  project  was  inaugurated 
which  resulted  in  the  publication  of  the  Western 
Herald,  by  the  Rev.  J.  B.  Walker. 

Mr.  Walker  continued  to  print  this  paper  till 
August,  1849.  In  the  meantime  he  had  changed  its 
name  to  Herald  of  the  Prairies,  and  had  entered  into 
a  partnership  with  the  Baptists  by  which  the  one 
paper  became  two.  The  two  papers,  however,  were 


RELIGIOUS  NEWSPAPERS.  125 

the  same  as  to  three  of  their  pages.  The  Baptist 
paper  was  called  the  Watchman  of  the  Prairies, 
and  was  edited  by  Rev.  Luther  Stone.  All  that  dis- 
tinguished the  two  papers  was  their  title  and  the 
second  page,  which  in  one  was  Baptist,  and  in  the 
other  was  Presbyterian  and  Congregational. 

The  Herald  from  its  commencement  leaned 
strongly  to  the  abolition  side.  As  the  slavery  agita- 
tion proceeded,  the  attitude  of  the  Congregational 
influence  became  more  and  more  vigorously  radical. 
The  Presbyterian  party  was  somewhat  divided.  A 
part  of  that  Church,  New  School,  was  united  with 
Presbyteries  in  some  of  the  Slave  States  till  after 
1850.  Hence  there  was  developed  between  the 
parties  to  the  Plan  of  Union  a  disposition  to  sepa- 
rate, already  mentioned,  as  the  matter  of  slavery 
became  complicated  with  ecclesiastical  questions. 

Mr.  Walker  was  very  much  disturbed  by  the 
course  which  matters  were  taking  and  resolved  to 
leave  the  Herald.  This  he  effected  in  1849  by  a 
transfer  to  Hon.  Wm.  Bross  and  J.  Ambrose  Wight. 
Messrs.  Wight  and  Bross,  as  publishers  and  editors 
of  the  paper,  changed  the  title  to  The  Prairie  Herald. 

The  paper,  though  it  had  a  subscription  list  of 
3,000,  was  environed  with  difficulties  of  which  the 
new  proprietors  had  little  conception.  The  partner- 
ship with  the  Baptists  restricted  freedom  of  topics 
and  of  discussion.  The  anti-slavery  ebullition 
was  a  constant  source  of  trouble.  To  speak  the  voice 
of  the  three  parties — the  pro-slavery,  the  ultra-aboli- 
tion, and  the  conservatives — was  impossible.  But 


126  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

greater  than  all  other  difficulties  was  the  fact  that  the 
parties  to  the  Plan  of  Union  were  uneasy.  This 
uneasiness  was  increased  on  the  Congregational  side 
by  the  New  York  Independent,  which  was  fast  be- 
coming powerful  as  a  Congregational  paper,  and  used 
its  influence  to  remove  the  Congregational  Churches 
from  the  alliance,  and  to  spread  the  distinctive  Con- 
gregational policy. 

On  the  Presbyterian  side  similar,  but  less  pro- 
nounced, conditions  were  producing  similar  results. 

At  the  end  of  two  and  a  half  years  Mr.  Bross  sold 
his  interest  in  the  paper  to  Mr.  Wight,  who  pub- 
lished it  a  year  longer  and  then,  in  1852,  sold  the 
subscription  list  to  Rev.  J.  C.  Holbrook,  of  Dubuque, 
for  Chicago  Congregational  parties,  with  which  they 
started  the  Congregational  Herald,  which  was  after- 
wards merged  into  the  Advance. 

After  this  the  Presbyterians  of  Chicago  started 
the  Chicago  Evangelist,  the  funds  for  which  were 
largely  contributed  by  members  of  the  Second 
Church.  After  a  brief  existence  this  paper  was 
united  with  the  New  York  Evangelist. 

The  Presbyterian  Recorder  and  the  Interior  owed 
their  existence  chiefly  to  contributions  from  mem- 
bers of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  obtained 
largely  through  the  efforts  of  Dr.  Patterson.  The 
Interior  was  established  on  a  fund  of  $50,000,  a  large 
proportion  of  which  was  furnished  by  the  Second 
Church. 


PERSONAL. 


Political  and  Professional. 

In  the  field  of  politics  this  congregation  has  been 
well  represented,  as  from  its  membership  have  been 
chosen  representatives  in  both  houses  of  Congress,  for- 
eign ministers,  members  of  the  State  Legislature, 
and  judges,  and  there  has  been  no  time  when  it  has 
not  furnished  its  share  of  ability  in  the  discharge  of 
the  many  other  duties  of  state  and  municipal  officers. 

The  Church  has  been  also  thoroughly  represented 
at  the  bar,  in  the  medical  profession  and  in  the  banks 
and  commercial  institutions  of  the  city.  Some  of  the 
principal  educational  institutions  of  Chicago  have 
been  presided  over  or  founded  by  its  members.  Many 
of  the  newspapers  of  Chicago  have  also  been  in 
charge  of  managers  and  editors  taken  from  the  Sec- 
ond Church. 

The  Ministry. 

Quite  a  large  number  of  young  men  have  gone 
into  the  ministry  while  connected  with  the  Church, 
or  at  a  later  time.  The  list  includes  :  J.  Ambrose 
Wight,  Bradford  Y.  Averell,  first  pastor  of  the  Hyde 
Park  Presbyterian  Church ;  Ezekiel  Folsom,  James 
A.  Dodds,  Lewis  C.  Baker,  Alfred  B.  Baker,  George 
L.  Raymond,  Edward  M.  Williams,  W.  W.  Adams,  I. 
W.  Hathaway.  A.  Henry  Barnes,  William  B.  Boomer, 

missionary  to  Chile ;  J.  H.  Mateer,  Henry  C.  Gran- 

127 


128  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

ger,  Ambrose  S.  Wight,  A.  B.  Nichols  and  D.  H. 
Temple,  son  of  Dr.  Temple,  missionary  to  India. 

The  First  Foreign  Missionary  from  Chicago, 
Mrs.  Mary  (Ely)  Munger. 

Mrs.  Mary  (Ely)  Munger,  who  consecrated  her 
life  to  the  spread  of  the  gospel  in  India,  was  the  first 
foreign  missionary  from  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  the  first  one  from  Chicago.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  Deacon  Richard  Ely,  of  Lynne, 
Conn.,  and  the  wife  of  Rev.  S.  B.  Munger.  Born  in 
November,  1810,  she  early  exhibited  a  character  of 
unusual  promise.  In  her  childhood  she  was  deeply 
impressed  with  religious  truth,  but  dated  her  conver- 
sion to  the  winter  of  1830-1831,  when  she  united 
with  the  Congregational  Church  in  her  native  place. 
From  that  period  began  a  career  of  remarkable  devo- 
tion and  activity  in  Christian  life.  After  completing 
her  school  education  at  the  Female  Seminary  in  Nor- 
wich, Conn.,  and  at  the  academy  in  Westfield,  Mass., 
she  was  for  several  years  a  successful  and  beloved 
teacher  of  a  school  for  young  ladies.  The  self-deny- 
ing, missionary  spirit  was  ever  prominent.  When 
teaching  in  a  place,  largely  settled  by  the  Society  of 
Friends,  near  the  old  border  line,  several  hundreds 
of  colored  people  sought  freedom  and  refuge  in  its 
vicinity.  Miss  Ely's  heart  was  so  touched  by  their 
ignorance  and  degradation  that,  through  her  efforts, 
she  established  and  superintended  a  large  and  flour- 
ishing Sunday-school  among  them. 

Miss  Ely's  aid  was  especially  sought  in  all 
branches  of  Christian  work,  as  a  leader  in  her  native 


x/  /O"         /?/ 

ts/Lc^y       v.       C//^^^j^ — . 

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PERSONAL.  129 


place,  but  her  heart  yearned  for  the  foreign  mission- 
ary work,  and  she  anticipated  accompanying  her 
brother,  the  Rev.  Blias  P.  Ely,  to  some  distant 
heathen  land.  The  death  of  this  brother  at  the 
age  of  twenty-five  seemed  a  donble  bereavement,  de- 
priving her  of  the  society  of  a  beloved  brother,  and 
seemingly  making  impossible  the  work  to  which  she 
had  consecrated  her  life.  As  it  was  not  then  thought 
best  for  single  ladies  to  engage  in  foreign  missionary 
work,  Miss  Ely  felt  it  to  be  her  duty  to  practice 
much  self-denial,  to  furnish  means  for  others  to 
engage  in  that  blessed  service. 

In  1847  Miss  Ely  accompanied  her  parents  to 
Waukegan,  111.,  and  in  1852,  with  all  the  surviving 
members  of  her  father's  family,  made  her  home  in 
Chicago,  and  united  with  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church.  After  the  decease  of  an  invalid  mother,  her 
earnest  prayer  was,  "  Lord,  what  wilt  thou  have  me 
to  do  ?  "  In  the  early  part  of  1854,  Miss  Ely  was 
invited  to  take  part  in  the  work  of  missions  in  India, 
and  to  lighten  the  burdens  of  one:i:  who  had  long 
been  toiling  and  praying  in  that  land.  Her  large 
and  loving  heart  promptly  replied,  "  By  the  help  of 
God  I  will  go."  Great  indeed  were  the  sacrifices 
involved  in  parting  from  a  large  circle  of  rela- 
tives and  friends.  The  following  testimony  of  her 
character  was  given  by  the  Rev.  R.  W.  Patterson,  of 
the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  to  the  Secretary  of 
the  American  Board : 

*  Rev.  S.  B.  Munger  became  a  missionary  of  the  American  Board  to  the  Mahratti 
in  1834.  He  devoted  his  life  to  the  work,  dying  in  the  service  in  Bombay  in  1867.  He 
became  noted  alike  for  his  successful  ministry  to  the  native  population,  and  for  his 
researches  in  their  literature. 


130  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

"  It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  certify  in  this  man- 
ner my  high  estimate  of  the  character  of  Miss  Mary 
E.  Ely  for  the  work  of  an  assistant  missionary  in  a 
foreign  field.  Miss  Ely  has  been  for  nearly  two 
years  a  member  of  the  church  to  which  I  minister, 
and  is  a  sister  much  beloved  in  the  Lord  among  us. 
With  more  than  ordinary  mental  vigor  and  discrimi- 
nation, high  intellectual  and  moral  culture,  good  prac- 
tical judgment,  attractive  social  qualities,  fervency  of 
religious  zeal,  and  rare  symmetry  of  Christian  char- 
acter, she  is,  I  think,  eminently  fitted  for  the  work 
for  which  she  is  ready  to  consecrate  the  remainder  of 
her  earthly  life.  Should  it  appear  to  be  her  duty  to 
go  forth  to  labor  for  the  salvation  of  the  heathen, 
under  the  direction  of  the  American  Board,  she  will  be 
followed  by  the  prayers  of  many  Christian  friends 
here,  who  can  only  be  cheerful  in  sparing  her  from 
their  circle,  because  they  may  believe  that  the  Master 
has  bidden  her  to  come  up  to  a  higher  sphere  of  unsel- 
fishness and  honor." 

Immediately  after  their  marriage,  on  the  i5th  of 
August,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Munger,  by  the  request  of  the 
Board,  hastened  to  England  to  join  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Anderson  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Thompson,  delegates  to 
the  India  Missions.  They  arrived  in  Southampton 
just  in  time  to  join  these  eminent  delegates  en  route 
for  India.  After  an  exceedingly  trying  voyage,  Mrs. 
Munger  joyfully  reached  the  shores  of  India  on 
November  3d,  1854.  When  settled  in  her  Mission 
home,  she  devoted  herself  with  great  assiduity  to  the 
study  of  the  language.  As  soon  as  she  had  learned 


PERSONAL.  131 


the  alphabet,  she  sought  those  ignorant  of  it  and 
began  the  work  of  instruction,  .and  when  she  had 
learned  to  read,  she  began  to  teach  the  Scriptures, 
Hymns,  and  Catechism.  In  this  way  she  brought 
under  her  influence  a  class  of  girls  and  all  the 
inmates  of  the  Mission  household.  Her  heart  was 
deeply  pained  by  the  degradation  and  bondage  of  her 
own  sex  in  India,  and  she  longed  to  tell  them  of  that 
liberty  by  which  Christ  maketh  his  people  free.  She 
accompanied  her  husband  on  his  various  preaching 
tours,  dwelling  in  tents,  as  did  the  patriarchs  of  old. 
Mrs.  Munger's  health  was  so  much  impaired  by 
severe  sea-sickness  on  the  voyage  that  she  seemed 
never  to  recover  from  it.  She  suffered  from  repeated 
attacks  of  illness,  but  from  all  of  them  she  rallied, 
until  the  3d  of  May,  1856,  when  she  was  suddenly 
stricken  down  with  disease  After  thirty-three 
days  of  intense  physical  suffering,  in  the  language 
of  her  husband,  "There  came  down  into  that  mission- 
ary dwelling  a  glad  convoy  of  angels  and  she  was 
not,  because  Jesus  had  taken  her  to  the  Home  of  the 
saved  in  her  Father's  House." 

During  her  illness  her  sick  room  was  spoken  of 
as  "an  outer  court  of  the  mansions  of  the  blessed." 
Her  constant  exhortation  was  :  "  Let  everything  that 
hath  breath  praise  the  Lord."  During  excruciating 
suffering  no  murmur  escaped  her  lips.  She  spoke  of 
herself  as  a  child  lying  upon  the  arms  of  loving 
parents.  She  said,  "  My  Heavenly  Father  will  do  me 
no  wrong."  In  the  early  part  of  her  illness  she  said, 
"  I  have  been  with  Moses  on  Mt.  Nebo,  and  have 


132  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

seen  the  glories  of  the  land  beyond  the  river,  and  the 
river  is  neither  cold  nor  dark." 

The  news  of  Mrs.  Hunger's  death  brought  a  deep 
feeling  of  grief  and  sense  of  loss  to  many  hearts, 
with  the  thought  of  her  abundant  entrance  into  the 
joys  of  her  Lord. 

Soon  ofter  the  sad  tidings  of  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Munger  reached  us,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Patterson  preached 
a  sermon  from  Matthew  xxvi,  13,  entitled  "  The  True 
Memorial,"  which  was  printed  in  one  of  our  Chicago 
papers.  A  biographical  sketch,  first  published  in 
the  Oriental  Christian  Spectator  in  Bombay,  was 
translated  into  the  Mahratta  language  and  as  a  small 
volume  circulated  for  the  benefit  of  native  Christians 
in  India. 

Mrs.  Munger's  grave  is  in  Satara,  where  her 
death  occurred  on  June  3d,  1856. 

Among  the  many  mysteries  of  Providence  was 
the  brevity  of  Mrs.  Munger's  term  of  direct  Mission- 
ary service,  but  she  gave  to  it  her  heart  and  life,  and 
so  by  giving  all  showed  her  worthiness  to  be  enrolled 
with  the  noble  army  of  saints  and  martyrs  in  the 
Redeemer's  cause. 

She  was  truly  a  bright  and  shining  light,  and  the 
benefit  of  her  excellent  example  cannot  be  lost  to 
the  Church  and  to  the  Missionary  cause.  Such  self- 
denial,  truth  and  faithfulness  to  the  end,  such  joyous 
trust  in  God  in  the  hour  of  need,  cannot  be  devoutly 
contemplated  without  benefit. 


EZEKIEL  FOLSOM. 


PERSONAL.  133 


Rev.  Ezekiel  Folsom. 

In  September,  1861,  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  sent  Mr.  Ezekiel  Folsom,  one  of  its  mem- 
bers, to  Cairo,  111.,  to  labor  among  the  volunteer  sol- 
diers in  camp  there,  as  at  that  time  the  regiments 
had  no  chaplains,  neither  was  there  a  clergyman  of 
any  denomination  in  that  city.  Mr.  Folsom  took 
charge  of  the  services  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  on 
the  Sabbath  and  at  the  mid-week  prayer  meeting, 
either  conducting  the  services  himself  or  securing 
some  minister  to  do  so.  The  house  was  always  well 
filled  by  soldiers  and  citizens  and  there  were  many 
testimonies  given  of  the  spiritual  help  and  comfort 
found  in  that  little  church  in  those  dark  days  of  civil 
war. 

In  this  work  Mr.  Folsom  was  greatly  aided  by  the 
cordial  co-operation  of  General  Grant  and  Commo- 
dore Foote. 

The  committee  of  the  Second  Church  in  charge, 
sent  liberal  supplies  of  good  reading  matter,  and  the 
eagerness  with  which  the  soldiers  received  the  books 
and  papers,  showed  how  much  they  were  appreciated, 
and  Mr.  Folsom's  daily  visits  to  the  hospital  were 
always  most  welcome.  Many  very  touching  incidents 
occurred  in  connection  with  this  branch  of  his  work. 

When  the  Chicago  Sanitary  Commission  was 
formed,  he  became  its  agent  in  Cairo;  and  later,  be- 
cause of  his  special  fitness  and  love  for  this  work 
among  the  soldiers,  the  Presbytery  of  Cairo  ordained 
him  as  a  minister,  that  he  might  be  appointed  hospital 
chaplain  at  that  post,  which  appointment  he  received 


134  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

from  President  Lincoln,  June  14,  1862.    He  held  this 
office  until  the  close  of  the  war. 

Mr.  Folsom  died  at  Lake  Forest,  March  27,  1872, 
aged  seventy-two  years. 

Mrs.  Clarissa  C.  Peck. 

Clarissa  C.  Peck  was  born  in  Marathon,  Portland 
county,  New  York,  in  the  year  1816,  and  spent  the 
early  years  of  her  life  in  her  native  village  until  her 
marriage  in  1837  *o  Philander  Peck,  then  a  young 
man  of  character  and  ability,  engaged  in  mercantile 
pursuits,  who  left  his  home  in  the  State  of  New  York 
in  1836,  taking  a  small  stock  of  goods  with  him  to 
seek  his  fortune  in  the  West,  locating  in  Illinois  at 
a  little  point  called  Little  Rock,  in  Kendall  county. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peck  were  among  the  early  pioneers 
of  the  Fox  River  Valley — a  valley  which  instead  of  as 
now  abounding  in  plenty,  was  then  occupied  only  by  a 
few  scattered  settlers.  Its  fertile  and  productive 
lands  were  then  offered  to  them  by  the  Government 
at  the  price  of  a  dollar  and  a  quarter  an  acre.  All 
provisions  were  then  transported  by  ox  teams  from 
Chicago,  and  as  Mr.  Peck  often  remarked  there  were 
times  when  it  was  difficult  to  get  enough  to  eat. 

But  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peck  were  both  full  of  life  and 
energy,  and  amid  the  prosperity  and  abundance  ac- 
quired in  the  future,  they  often  said  that  they  had 
seen  no  happier  years  than  those  of  their  early  mar- 
ried life  in  the  rude  log  cabin  in  the  Fox  River 
Valley,  which  was  made  to  answer  the  combined  pur- 
pose of  a  store  and  family  residence. 


MRS.  CLARISSA   C.  PECK. 


PERSONAL.  135 


In  1841  the  family  removed  to  Whitewater,  in 
the  State  of  Wisconsin,  and  remained  there  for  ten 
years  until  the  fall  of  1851,  when  Mr.  Peck,  who 
desired  a  larger  field  and  greater  opportunities  for  busi- 
ness success  than  a  small  village  could  afford,  and 
who  foresaw  something  of  the  future  greatness  of  Chi- 
cago, removed  to  this  city;  but  his  health,  always  some- 
what frail  and  delicate,  gave  way  under  the  strain 
and  exertion  of  a  new  business  venture  and  he  died 
in  June  of  the  following  year,  leaving  behind  him  a 
widow  and  three  children  to  mourn  his  loss. 

Soon  after  the  death  of  her  husband,  Mrs.  Peck 
united  with  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  to 
which  she  was  strongly  attached,  and  of  which  she 
continued  until  her  death  to  be  a  loyal  and  exemp- 
lary member,  contributing  liberally  to  its  support, 
active  in  its  work,  and  never  shirking  the  duties 
of  her  position.  She  was  a  woman  of  warm  sym- 
pathies and  strong  affections,  and  by  the  death  of 
her  husband  and  the  subsequent  death  of  all  her 
children  she  was  visited  with  a  burden  of  sorrow 
such  as  few  are  ever  called  to  bear,  but  her  bright 
nature  and  elastic  spirit  survived  it  all,  and  made  her 
a  cheerful  companion,  whose  presence  and  society 
were  ever  welcome. 

She  gave  liberally  of  her  abundance  to  the  poor 
and  contributed  generously  to  all  worthy  charities 
whose  objects  were  made  known  to  her,  not  only 
pecuniary  relief,  but  what  many  in  her  position  value 
much  more  highly,  her  active  personal  exertions. 

She  was  most  highly  esteemed  by  all  who  knew 


136  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

her,  and  the  Chicago  Home  for  Incurables,  which  she 
founded  and  endowed,  is  a  fitting  monument  to  her 
memory.  Mrs.  Peck  died  December  22,  i< 


Mrs.  B.   W.  Raymond. 

Mrs.  B.  W.  Raymond  (n&e  Porter)  entered  into 
rest  at  Atlanta,  Georgia,  May  23d,  1889,  and  her 
body  was  laid  beside  that  of  her  husband  in  Grace- 
land,  May  27th  following.  She  and  her  friend,  Mrs. 
N.  A.  Jones,  were  buried  on  adjoining  lots  at  the 
same  time.  Their  husbands  had  come  to  Chicago 
the  same  year,  had  been  in  the  Second  Church 
together  from  the  year  of  its  organization,  had  been 
upon  very  intimate  social  terms,  and  had  laid  their 
burdens  down  within  the  same  week  in  the  spring  of 
1883.  "  They  were  lovely  and  pleasant  in  their  lives 
and  in  their  deaths  they  were  not  divided." 

When  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Raymond  first  came  to  Chi- 
cago they  united  with  the  First  Presbyterian  Church, 
where  they  were  active,  until  they  helped  to  organize 
the  Second  Church  under  Dr.  Patterson.  Dr.  Patter- 
son testified  on  the  day  of  her  funeral  that  no  one  of 
his  many  parishioners  had  ever  been  more  conse- 
crated or  more  useful  than  Mrs.  Raymond,  and  every 
other  pastor  who  has  been  associated  with  her 
would  give  the  same  testimony.  She  was  a  woman 
of  uncommon  and  even  tireless  energy,  unceasing 
in  her  activities,  always  cheerful  and  buoyant  in 
spirit,  serving  the  Lord,  and  this  was  the  more  re- 
markable, because  for  many  years  she  had  suffered 
much  from  pain  and  physical  weakness,  but  so  little 


MRS.   B.  W.   RAYMOND. 


PERSONAL.  137 


was  it  allowed  to  interrupt  the  current  of  her  work  or 
the  flow  of  her  joy,  that  only  intimate  friends  knew 
either  of  her  infirmities  or  of  the  afflictions  that  had 
touched  her  life  from  without.  When  death  invaded 
her  home,  and  financial  difficulties  threatened  it,  she 
went  forward  as  serene  and  cheerful  and  efficient  as 
ever.  Hospitality  was  the  law  of  love  which  distin- 
guished her  house.  She  was  the  most  benevo- 
lent woman  that  her  pastor  has  ever  known.  Dr. 
Patterson  said  at  her  funeral  that  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Raymond  were  the  only  Christians  he  had  met  who 
needed  to  be  warned  against  giving  away  too  much. 
During  their  joint  lives,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Raymond 
regularly  gave  away  one-third  of  their  income,  which 
was  never  large  according  to  the  present  standards, 
and  oftentimes  they  gave  away  far  more.  All  this 
was  done  quietly  and  unostentatiously,  as  a  matter  of 
course.  Mrs.  Raymond  would  not  permit  her  friends 
to  know  how  much  she  was  doing. 

The  most  marked  feature  of  her  Christian  life  was 
her  earnest,  prayerful  and  persistent  seeking  to  win 
souls  for  Christ.  She  constantly  kept  a  long  list  of 
those  for  whom  she  prayed  by  name.  Her  life  of 
uniform  happiness,  kindness  and  benevolence  dis- 
closes the  secret  by  which  it  was  governed ;  unswerv- 
ing confidence  in  the  wisdom  and  goodness  of  God. 

John  Crerar. 

Mr.  John  Crerar,  whose  dignified  yet  gentle  bear- 
ing attracted  the  eye  no  less  than  his  kindness  and 
sympathy  warmed  the  heart,  was  born  in  New  York 


138  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


City  in  1827.  He  came  of  Scotch  parentage,  and 
was  brought  up  under  strict  religious  discipline  which 
showed  in  all  the  actions  of  his  subsequent  life,  in 
which  principle  was  the  governing  power.  If  his 
training  in  childhood  was  severe  it  had  no  hardening 
effect  upon  his  disposition  for  he  had  no  faith  in  any 
religion  which  was  not  entirely  cheerful.  He  was  a 
great  reader  of  the  Bible  and  knew  the  eighth  chapter 
of  Romans  by  heart,  and  upon  a  text  from  this  chap- 
ter his  religious  life  was  based.  Without  being  nar- 
row minded  or  censorious  Mr.  Crerar  was  intolerant 
of  infidelity,  and  was  ever  ready  to  resent  any  attack 
upon  the  fundamental  truths  of  Christianity. 

As  a  believer  in  organized  effort  he  gave  most  lib- 
eral support  to  the  societies  and  boards  connected  with 
the  church.  Appeals  from  such  organized  sources 
met  his  approval  more  strongly  than  those  which 
came  from  individuals  working  by  themselves.  Mr. 
Crerar's  philanthropy,  however,  knew  no  bounds  nor 
limits,  but  was  constantly  active  and  progressive, 
without  ostentation. 

Mr.  Crerar's  father  (also  named  John)  died  when 
his  son  was  an  infant,  and  his  mother  (Agnes 
Smeallie)  subsequently  married  Mr.  George  Boyd,  a 
Scotchman  in  charge  of  the  American  branch  of  the 
English  steel  business  of  William  Jessup  &  Sons. 
Mr.  Crerar  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  up  to  which  time 
he  had  been  a  diligent  and  successful  student  in  the 
New  York  schools,  began  his  business  career  by 
entering  the  house  of  which  Mr.  Boyd  was  the  Amer- 
ican representative.  After  several  years  of  prelim- 


PERSONAL.  139 


inary  experience  Mr.  Crerar  became  connected  with 
the  house  of  Morris  R.  Jessup  &  Co.  With  this 
house  and  its  successors  he  was  connected  during  the 
rest  of  his  life.  In  company  with  Mr.  J.  McGregor 
Adams,  Mr.  Crerar,  in  1862,  bought  the  Chicago 
Branch  of  Jessup  &  Co.,  and  the  firm  of  Crerar, 
Adams  &  Co.  was  established.  The  business  of  this 
firm  increased  rapidly,  and  it  was  soon  known  as  one 
of  the  most  important  business  establishments  in 
Chicago.  Mr.  Crerar  was  also  largely  interested  in 
the  Adams  &  Westlake  Company,  was  one  of  the 
original  incorporators  of  Pullman's  Palace  Car  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  was  a  director;  he  was  also  a 
director  of  the  Chicago  and  Alton  Railway,  and  of 
the  Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  and  was  at  one 
time  President  of  the  Chicago  and  Joliet  Railway. 
It  is  evident  that  in  business,  as  well  as  in  philan- 
thropic work,  Mr.  Crerar  believed  in  organization, 
and  on  this  account  he  became  so  largely  interested 
in  stock  companies.  Though  known  to  have  a  high 
opinion  of  Chicago  real  estate,  his  instincts  were 
strictly  commercial  and  non-speculative,  and  his 
chief  holdings  were,  as  intimated,  in  organized  cor- 
porations. 

Beside  these  purely  business  relations  he  had  a 
very  wide  connection  with  the  religious  and  charita- 
ble institutions  of  the  city.  As  Vice-President  of  the 
Chicago  Orphan  Asylum,  director  in  the  Presbyte- 
rian Hospital,  and  in  the  Chicago  Relief  and  Aid 
Society,  and  trustee  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church,  he  gave  freely  of  his  time  and  money  to  aid 


I4O  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

these  institutions  to  carry  out  the  objects  for  which 
they  were  organized. 

Mr.  Crerar  was  a  man  of  eminently  social  and  liter- 
ary inclinations,  and  was  a  great  reader  of  books. 
His  will  indicates  that  this  fondness  never  dimin- 
ished, as  his  largest  bequest,  which  will  probably 
exceed  $2,500,000,  was  for  the  establishment  of  a 
public  library  in  Chicago. 

Not  specially  fond  of  travel,  Mr.  Crerar  preferred 
large  cities  as  a  place  of  residence,  and  until  the 
death  of  his  mother  always  felt  that  New  York  was 
his  home,  and  when  going  there  from  Chicago  always 
spoke  of  it  as  going  home.  After  the  death  of  his 
mother  this  feeling  changed,  and  he  never  alluded  to 
any  place  but  Chicago  as  home,  and  often  said  that 
he  could  not  be  happy  to  be  permanently  in  any  other 
place. 

In  the  spring  of  1889,  Mr.  Crerar's  health  began 
to  fail,  and  on  October  iQth  of  that  year  he  passed 
quietly  away  at  the  residence  of  his  devoted  friend, 
Mr.  Norman  Williams.  By  his  death  every  worthy 
business  enterprise  lost  a  well  wisher,  and  every 
organization  for  improving  the  condition  of  society 
lost  a  most  active  and  powerful  friend. 

In  accordance  with  his  request,  Mr.  Crerar  was 
buried  beside  his  mother  in  Greenwood  Cemetery, 
New  York. 

In  his  lifetime  Mr.  Crerar  had  given  away  very 
large  sums  of  money,  but  not  in  very  large  amounts. 
His  gift  of  $10,000  to  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  to  enable  it  to  extinguish  its  debt  was  per- 


PERSONAL.  141 


haps  the  largest  amount  which  he  gave  at  any  one 
time  during  his  life. 

In  his  will,  by  which  he  disposed  of  an  estate 
valued  at  about  $4,000,000,  he  left  large  sums  to  the 
organizations  in  which  he  had  been  interested  during 
his  life,  together  with  munificent  legacies  to  his  rela- 
tives, many  of  whom  he  had  never  seen.  His  part- 
ners and  personal  friends  received  large  bequests  and 
numerous  charitable  and  religious  institutions  were 
most  generously  remembered. 

Among  his  gifts  of  a  public  nature  were  one  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church,  the  income  to  be  used  on  ac- 
count of  said  Church  ;  one  hundred  thousand  dollars 
to  the  same  Trustees,  the  income  to  be  employed  for 
the  promotion  and  continuance  of  the  Mission  Schools 
of  said  Church;  and  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  for 
a  colossal  statue  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 

Fifty  thousand  dollars  each  for  the  Chicago  Or- 
phan Asylum,  the  Chicago  Nursery  and  Half  Orphan 
Asylum,  American  Sunday  School  Union,  Chicago 
Relief  and  Aid  Society,  Illinois  Training  School  for 
Nurses,  Chicago  Manual  Training  School,  Presbyte- 
rian League  of  Chicago,  Chicago  Old  People's  Home, 
Chicago  Home  for  the  Friendless,  Chicago  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association. 

Twenty-five  thousand  dollars  each  for  the  Scotch 
Presbyterian  Church  of  New  York,  Chicago  His- 
torical Society,  Chicago  Presbyterian  Hospital,  St. 
Luke's  Free  Hospital,  Chicago  Bible  Society. 

Ten  thousand  dollars  each  for  the  St.  Andrew's 


142  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


Society  of  New  York,  the   St.  Andrew's  Society  of 
Chicago,  the  Chicago  Literary  Club. 

The  crowning  gift  of  all  was  the  residue  of  the 
estate  after  paying  the  foregoing  public  and  numer- 
ous private  bequests.  This  residue,  which  will 
amount  to  more  than  $2,500,000,  he  gave  for  a  public 
library  for  the  city  of  Chicago.  For  the  first  board 
of  directors  for  this  library  he  named  Messrs.  Nor- 
man Williams,  Huntington  W.  Jackson,  Marshall 
Field,  E.  W.  Blatchford,  T.  B.  Blackstone,  Robert  T. 
Lincoln,  Henry  W.  Bishop,  Edward  G.  Mason,  Al- 
bert Keep,  Edson  Keith,  Simon  J.  McPherson,  John 
M.  Clark,  George  A.  Armour.  In  making  this  be- 
quest Mr.  Crerar  said,  "  I  desire  that  books  and 
periodicals  be  selected  with  a  view  to  create  and  sus- 
tain a  healthy,  moral  and  Christian  sentiment.  .  . 
I  want  its  atmosphere  that  of  Christian  refinement 
and  its  aim  and  object  the  building  up  of  character." 

Mr.  Crerar's  life  was  marked  by  a  most  steadfast 
adherence  to  principle  and  by  a  repugnance  to  that 
which  was  unworthy  in  itself  or  which  might  lead  to 
unworthy  things.  The  remembrance  of  his  fidelity 
to  his  Church,  to  his  friends  and  to  all  the  interests 
which  tend  to  make  life  more  cheerful  and  men  more 
noble  will  ever  remain  to  consecrate  the  benevolences 
which  his  Christian  generosity  have  enriched. 


SEXTONS. 


The  first  sexton  employed  by  the  Second  Church, 
of  whom  we  have  record,  was  Mr.  Hastings,  for  three 
months  from  January  i,  1845,  at  $6.00  per  month. 
It  is  probable  that  Joseph  Meeker  acted  as  sexton 
until  the  completion  of  the  new  church  on  Wabash 
avenue,  or  until  January,  1851,  when  S.  P.  Warner 
was  employed.  He  was  succeeded,  in  1858,  by 
Homer  L.  Blakeslee,  who  has  faithfully  served  the 
Church  in  that  important  position  from  1858  until  the 
present  time.  In  this  work  Mr.  Blakeslee  has  been 
ably  assisted  by  Edward  L.  Bradley  who  began  his 
services  in  this  connection  in  January,  1862.  The 
Church  has  thus  enjoyed  thirty-four  years  of  intelli- 
gent and  loyal  service  from  Mr.  Blakeslee,  and  thirty 
years  of  careful  and  painstaking  attention  from  Mr. 
Bradley. 


CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  BENEVOLENT  PUR- 

POSES. 


The  reports  of  the  treasurers,  William  H.  Brown, 
B.  W.  Raymond,  F.  Crumbaugh  and  George  C. 
Benton,  show  that  regular  contributions  have  been 
made  to  the  following  objects,  for  the  spread  of  the 
gospel :  Foreign  Missions,  Home  Missions,  Educa- 
tion for  the  Ministry,  Bible  Society,  Freedmen's  Aid, 
Church  Erection,  Ministerial  Relief,  Colleges  and 
Academies,  Board  of  Publication,  Presbyterian  Hos- 
pital, Presbyterian  League,  Moseley  Mission,  Kinder- 
garten, Sustentation,  the  Poor  of  the  Church. 

Special  contributions  have  also  been  made,  as 
occasion  required,  in  aid  of  Weak  Churches,  Amer- 
ican Sunday  School  Union,  Christian  Endeavor,  Mon- 
ticello  Seminary,  Lake  Forest  University,  Home  of 
the  Friendless,  Northwestern  (McCormick)  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion, Captain  Bundy's  Work  on  the  Lakes,  Pacific 
Garden  Mission,  Women's  Temperance  Union,  Bible 
Revision,  Indian  Mission,  Seamen's  Mission,  Synod- 
ical  Mission  Work,  Syrian  Mission,  Tract  Society, 
Bible  Society,  Presbyterian  Hospital. 

The  accounts  of  the  treasurers  show  that  the  total 
of  such  benevolences  of  the  Church  as  have  passed 
through  their  hands  in  the  past  fifty  years  have 
exceeded  six  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars. 

144 


CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  BENEVOLENT  PURPOSES.   145 

The  greater  part  of  this  considerable  sum  has 
been  gathered  in  the  regular  collections  of  the 
Church,  and  in  the  regular  work  of  the  following 
organizations:  The  Dorcas  Society,  Young  Ladies* 
Missionary  Society,  Woman's  Foreign  Missionary 
Society,  Church  Sunday  School,  Moseley  Mission 
Sunday  School,  Ladies'  Aid  Society,  Woman's  Home 
Missionary  Society,  Woman's  Missionary  Society. 

Within  the  past  five  years  liberal  sums  have  been 
given  by  individual  members  of  the  Church,  most 
of  which  have  not  been  included  in  the  $650,000 
reported  above. 

In  addition  to  the  amounts  reported,  reference 
should  be  made  to  the  gift  of  $10,000  from  Mr. 
Flavel  Moseley  for  the  mission  work  of  the  Church, 
$10,000  by  Mrs.  Clarissa  Peck  for  the  same  purpose, 
and  to  that  of  Mr.  John  Crerar  of  $100,000  for  the 
mission  work  of  the  Church,  and  $100,000  to  the 
trustees  of  the  Church  for  unspecified  objects. 

The  following  summaries  of  the  treasurers'  re- 
ports of  the  benevolent  funds  of  the  Church,  1843- 
73,  show  the  money  which  passed  through  the  treas- 
urers' hands  for  those  years : 


1843  to  1865,  .    $93,670  91 

1865,  .    4,813  68 

1866,  .  5,571  82 

1867,  .       .    6,415  29 

1868,  .         .  .         6,387  99 


1869,  $5,414  01 

1870,  .         .         .       *4,ooo  oo 

1871,  .  .     4,537  81 

1872,  .  4,519  44 

1873,  .         .         .     4,900  03 


Total,  $140,230.00 

The  following  statement  shows  the  benevolences 

*  Estimated. 


146  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

and  congregational  expenses  of  the  Church,  1874-91. 
as  reported  to  the  General  Assembly : 

YEAR.  BENEVOLENCE.  CONGREGATIONAL  EXP's. 

1874  .      $5»I72  .       $13,474 

DR.  GIBSON'S  PASTORATE. 

1875  •  $6,536        .        .       ..        .      $18,634 

1876  .      8,446        ....        15,226 

1877  .  19,789  ($14,264  miscellaneous)  71,028  (debt) 

1878  .      6,424  .        .        .        18,049 

1879  „  19,242  ($15, 778  miscellaneous)  19,046 

1880  .      8,585         .       /.        .        .        14,559 


Total     $69,022  Total      $156,542 

Average  11,503  Average     26,090 

1881  .     $5,459  •/      •.        .         .      $15,555 

1882  .       5,116  >:j,        ,       ; .  .      .        16,578 


Total     $10,575  Total     $32,133 

Average    52.87  Average  16,866 

DR.  MCPHERSON'S  PASTORATE. 

1883  .  $  6,955        ....      $53,568  (debt) 

1884  .     37,264  ($19,152  miscellaneous)  18,160 

1885  .     22,473  ($6,948  miscellaneous)  42,797  (tower) 

1886  .     27,521  ($8,912  miscellaneous)    22,061  (new  boilers) 

1887  22,509  18,572 

($8,321  miscellaneous) 
,888     .*  47,900  education)    '    -8,367 


($24,315  miscellaneous) 
1889     .  f  72,526  ($I2j988  education)         39,46o  (church  rep  d) 


*  This  amount,  for  1888,  includes  legacies  from  Mrs.  William  H.  Reid  of  $5,000  to  the 
"Woman's  Home  Missionary  Society,  $2,500  to  the  Women's  Foreign  Missionary  Society, 
$2,500  to  the  Young  I,adies'  Missionary  Society;  also  a  gift  from  Mrs.  William  Armour 
of  $5,000  to  endow  a  Memorial  Bed  at  the  Presbyterian  Hospital,  and  a  gift  from  Mr. 
S.  B.  Cobb  of  $6,000,  of  which  $5,000  was  to  endow  a  Memorial  Bed  in  the  Presbyterian 
Hospital,  and  $1,000  was  a  gift  to  the  funds  of  the  Hospital.  It  also  includes  individual 
gifts  of  $11,500  to  various  (not  mentioned)  institutions. 

tThis  amount,  for  1889,  includes  a  gift  of  $25,000  from  Mr.  William  H.  Reid  to  Mon- 


CONTRIBUTIONS   FOR  BENEVOLENT  PURPOSES.       147 
YEAR.  BENEVOLENCE.  CONGREGATIONAL   EXP'S. 

($49,943  miscellaneous) 
.890     $.60,304 I($9li8o9  education)     't»,o« 

1891     .     33,616  ($9,220  miscellaneous)   19,593 


Total    $431,068  Total      $254,644  - 

Average  47,896  Average     28,294 

The  column  "  congregational  expenses  "  includes 
all  the  cost  of  supporting  the  worship  of  the  Church, 
as  well  as  all  extraordinary  charges,  as  indicated. 

The  total  amount  reported  to  the  General  Assem- 
bly for  the  past  eighteen  years  for  benevolence  has 
been  $515,837,  and  for  the  whole  period  of  fifty 
years,  $656,067 ;  the  total  outlay  for  congregational 
expenses,  1874-1891,  has  been  $456,793.  While  the 
usual  expenses  for  supporting  the  worship  of  the 
Church  have  been  less  than  $20,000  per  year,  in 
1877,  X883,  1885,  1886  and  1889  this  amount  was 
largely  increased  for  reasons  suggested  in  the  state- 
ments for  those  years. 


ticello  Seminary;  and  for  Lake  Forest  University,  $45,000  given  by  Hon.  William  Bross, 
$10,000  given  by  Mr.  T.  B.  Blackstone,  $5,000  given  by  Mr.  William  Blair,  $5,000  given  by 
Mr.  Thomas  Murdoch,  $i ,000  given  by  Mr.  Albert  Keep. 


GENERAL  ESTIMATE   OF  THE   INFLUENCE  EXERTED  BY 
THIS  CHURCH   UPON  THE   CHURCHES  AND   INSTI- 
TUTIONS  IN  THE  NORTHWEST. 

BY  DR.  R.  W.  PATTERSON. 

With  some  hesitation  I  have  consented  to  comply 
with  a  request  that  I  would  write  a  brief  statement 
of  facts  known  to  me  that  may  illustrate  the  influ- 
ences exerted  by  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Chicago,  upon  the  moral  and  religious  interests  of 
the  Northwest.  I  cannot,  perhaps,  better  perform 
this  difficult  task  than  by  following,  in  the  main,  the 
history  of  this  Church's  connection  with  the  progress 
of  our  denomination  in  this  section  of  the  country. 
It  will,  of  course,  be  impossible  in  a  statement  of  this 
kind  to  enter  upon  particulars;  and  in  giving  out- 
lines I  shall  be  obliged  to  depend  largely  upon  my 
own  memory,  which,  however,  I  think  I  can  safely 
trust  as  to  the  matters  involved  in  these  paragraphs. 

In  the  changing  community  of  Chicago  since  the 
Second  Church  was  organized  in  June,  1842,  it  was 
to  be  expected  that  many  of  its  members  would  re- 
move, as  they  did,  to  other  places  in  Illinois  and  ad- 
jacent states.  Through  such  removals  not  a  few  of 
our  people  were  transferred  to  other  churches,  and 
several  became  prime  movers  in  the  organization  of 
new  churches.  Quite  a  number  were  chosen  trustees 
and  elders  in  the  congregations  with  which  they  were 
identified ;  and  carried  with  them  the  same  ideas  of 
conservative  progress  that  obtained  in  this  church. 

148 


GENERAL  ESTIMATE.  149 

Those  ideas  acted  as  a  quiet  leaven  in  the  several 
churches  concerned,  and  extended  their  silent  influ- 
ence to  many  neighboring  churches..  By  these  and 
similar  moral  forces  the  revolutionary  tendencies 
that  had  been  at  work  in  our  congregations,  in  a  few 
years  were  abated  and  a  desire  for  stability  and 
healthful  growth  took  the  place  of  the  former  disposi- 
tion to  try  adventurous  experiments. 

The  influence  of  this  church,  by  its  example  of 
stability  and  steady  progress  and  by  the  careful  ad- 
vice of  its  minister  and  other  officers,  was  very  consid- 
erable in  saving  others  of  our  churches  from  disin- 
tegration, or  withdrawal  to  other  communions.  Thus 
one  of  our  churches,  now  the  largest  in  Chicago,  was, 
in  a  season  of  discouragement,  when  about  to  dis- 
band, encouraged  by  the  pastor  of  this  church  to 
stand  fast  in  hope  of  a  brighter  day,  which  soon 
dawned  upon  the  little  band  of  despairing  disciples. 
And  other  churches  more  distant  were  held  together 
by  like  encouragement  from  the  same  quarter. 

Whole  Presbyteries,  when  urged  by  radical  re- 
formers to  secede  from  our  denomination,  were  held 
in  check  mainly  by  this  church  and  its  pastor  and  a 
few  sympathizing  ministerial  brethren,  who  stood 
firmly  by  the  constitution  of  the  church  and  the  laws 
of  its  administration.  Among  these  were  the  Presby- 
teries of  Ottawa  and  Belvidere  in  1842,  and  the  Pres- 
bytery of  Ottawa  again  in  1852. 

In  1857,  when  the  entire  Presbyterian  Church  (N. 
S.)  was  threatened  with  dismemberment  at  the  North 
by  the  demands  of  extreme  supporters  of  slavery  at 


I5O  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

the  South,  the  pastor  of  this  church,  in  connection 
with  Dr.  Henry  Kendall,  late  secretary  of  our  Home 
Missionary  Board,  drew  up  the  moderate  anti-slavery 
paper  that  was  adopted  at  Cleveland  by  the  entire 
vote  of  the  Commissioners  in  the  General  Assembly 
from  all  of  our  Northern  Presbyteries.  Without  this 
carefully  considered  action  based  upon  the  anti-slavery 
history  of  our  church,  and  of  its  earlier  assemblies, 
we  should  either  have  lost  all  our  conservative  Pres- 
byteries in  the  Eastern  cities,  or  all  of  our  more  pro- 
gressive Presbyteries  in  the  West  and  Northwest, 
which  the  denomination  as  a  whole  could  scarcely 
have  survived.  And  this  broad  result  may  be  fairly 
set  down  in  part  to  the  credit  of  the  Second  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Chicago,  by  which  the  pastor  and 
his  associates  were  so  fully  sustained  from  the  begin- 
ning in  their  moderately  conservative  policy. 

The  influence  and  agency  of  this  church  were 
very  important  in  relation  to  provisions  for  the  aid  of 
feeble  congregations,  especially  in  the  Northwest,  in 
the  erection  of  houses  of  worship.  The  fund  of  the 
Synod  of  Peoria  for  this  purpose,  when  the  Synod 
embraced  Northern  Illinois  and  the  whole  State  of 
Wisconsin,  consisted  of  about  $6,000.  The  move- 
ment for  the  procurement  of  this  fund  originated  with 
the  session  and  pastor  of  this  church.  About  one- 
fifth  of  the  fund  was  contributed  by  members  of  this 
congregation,  and  the  Church  Erection  Committee  of 
the  Synod  by  which  the  fund  was  administered  for 
the  help  of  many  congregations,  always  included  an 
elder  and  the  pastor  of  this  church.  There  is  reason 


GENERAL  STATEMENT. 


to  believe,  moreover,  that  the  example  of  the  Synod 
in  the  work  of  church  erection  was  among  the  most 
potent  influences  by  which  our  General  Assembly 
was  stimulated  in  its  successful  effort  to  raise  a  per- 
manent Church  Erection  Fund  of  $100,000  by  which, 
with  annual  contributions,  the  new  churches  of  the 
whole  country,  but  especially  of  the  Northwest,  are 
so  beneficially  assisted  from  year  to  year. 

The  efforts  for  the  establishment  of  a  religious 
newspaper  finally  culminated  in  the  founding  of  the 
Interior,  which  is  now  the  most  widely  circulated 
and  probably  the  most  influential  religious  journal  in 
our  entire  denomination. 

This  people  have  always  given  liberally  for  the 
furtherance  of  the  Sunday-school  cause  in  the  North- 
west ;  and  without  their  generous  aid,  under  the  lead 
of  their  former  pastor,  the  great  enterprise  of  the 
Lake  Forest  University  would  never  have  been  in- 
augurated, or  if  begun  must  have  perished  in  its 
infancy,  instead  of  advancing  to  its  present  success 
and  bright  promise  of  future  benediction,  not  only  to 
the  Northwest,  but  to  the  whole  country  and  the 
world. 

In  what  has  been  said,  the  indispensable  coopera- 
tion of  other  noble  churches,  with  their  honored  and 
efficient  pastors,  has  not  been  for  a  moment  for- 
gotten; but  the  purpose  of  this  sketch  required  a 
continuous  reference  to  the  influence  and  work  of 
this  particular  Church  and  Congregation  in  relation 
to  the  causes  and  interests  of  education,  morality  and 
religion  in  our  Northwestern  States  and  Territories. 


A    LIST 


MEMBERS    OF    THE    CHURCH 


1842-1892. 


NAMES  OF  ABSENT  MEMBERS. 

WHOSE  RESIDENCE  AND  CHRISTIAN  STANDING  ARE  UNKNOWN  TO 
THE  SESSION. 


Names. 

Allers,  Miss  Catherine 
Allen,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Allen,  Willard 
Bartholomew,  Miss  Julia 
Bennett,  James  M. 
Bennett,  Mrs.  Rosella 
Bowie,  Mrs.  Annie 
Brewster,  William 
Brown,  Annie 
Brown,  Mrs.  Agnes  F. 
Brown,  David 
Brown,  Mary  E. 
Brummond,  Peter 
Cave,  Mrs.  Mary 
Charpiot,  Jaques 
Childs,  George  T. 
Clapp,  Mrs.  Harriet  A. 
Clark,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Collins,  Mrs.  Mary  Eliza 
Cozzens,  Mrs.  Emeline 
Crosby,  Mrs.  Eliza 
Cruse,  Miss  Ida 
Cunningham,  James 
Curtis,  Miss  Clarissa  J. 
Dalton,  Mrs.  Olive 
Dana,  Mrs.  Anna  B. 
Davis,  Henry 
Dickinson,  Albert  H. 
Doggett,  Mrs.  Harriet 
Dor  man,  Rushton  M. 
Doty,  Samuel 
Fletcher,  Miss  Ida  R. 


How  admitted. 

Profession. 

Profession. 

Profession. 

Letter. 

Letter. 

Profession. 

Profession. 

Letter. 

Profession. 

Profession. 

Letter. 

Letter. 

Letter. 

Letter. 

Profession. 

Profession. 

Profession. 

Letter. 

Profession. 

Profession. 

Letter. 

Profession. 

Letter. 

Letter. 

Letter. 

Letter. 

Profession. 

Letter. 

Profession. 

Letter. 

Profession. 

Profession. 

154 


When  admitted. 
October  28,  1857. 
September  15,  1876. 
September  15,  1876. 
October  29,  1856. 
December  30,  1863. 
March  2,  1859. 
June  26,  1878. 
February  25,  1874. 
May  2,  1879. 
August  29,  1866. 
May  5,  1876. 
November  2,  1877. 
May  31,  1867. 
February  27,  1846. 
June  25,  1854. 
April  19,  1858. 
May  4,  1855. 
November  2,  1869. 
May  2,  1877. 
May  5,  1852. 
November  5,  1875. 
May  5,  1857. 
May  i,  1876. 
March  2,  1849. 
July  2,  1862. 
December  28,  1848. 
November  3,  1876. 
January  6,  1878. 
May  5,  1876. 
September  2,  1874. 
March  2,  1877. 
November  3,  1876. 


NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


155 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Fowler,  Ellen 

Profession. 

October  31,  1879. 

Gorman,  Mrs.  Eliza  F. 

Letter. 

September,  1871. 

Gregory,  Mrs.  D.  H. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1875. 

Groll,  Sophia 

Profession. 

June  26,  1878. 

Hare,  Chesley 

Profession. 

July  i,  1874. 

Haviland,  Miss  Jane 

Letter. 

September  2,  1858. 

Hay,  James  R. 

Letter. 

June  28,  1865. 

Heidman,  Miss  Ida 

Profession. 

March  5,  1875. 

Henderson.  Mrs.  Thomas 

Letter. 

March  5,  1880. 

Hendricks,  Mrs.  S.  C. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1880. 

Herman,  Ridley 

Profession. 

June  14,  1858. 

Hopper,  Mrs.  Mary  Ann 

Profession. 

May  i,  1861. 

Huntington,  Henry  B. 

Letter. 

May  8,  1863. 

Johnson,  Miss  Clara  Ann 

Profession. 

June  22,  1859. 

Johnston,  Harriet  P. 

Letter. 

May  3,  1878. 

Klemme,  Clara 

Profession. 

May  2,  1877. 

Laflin,  Mrs.  Abby  M. 

Letter. 

June  25,  1852. 

Lake,  Agnes 

Profession. 

January  6,  1878. 

Larson,  Mrs.  Thora  C.  M. 

Profession. 

June  26,  1874. 

Lee,  James  A. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1855. 

Liebrandt,  Henry 

Profession. 

July  3,  1861. 

Lippincott,  Miss  Mary 

Letter. 

November  i,  1868. 

Lockwood,  Henry  B. 

Profession. 

March  8,  1867. 

Luff,  Mrs.  Ruth  Matilda 

Letter. 

July  7,  1876. 

-Lusk,  Aranetta 

Profession. 

May  2,  1879. 

McCloyd,  Miss  Mary  A. 

Profession. 

April  12,  1858. 

McDonald,  Mrs.  Susan 

Letter. 

October  7,  1874. 

McGill,  John  J. 

Profession. 

March  i,  1878. 

McGregor,  Edward  L. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1877. 

McKee,  Thomas 

Profession. 

May  4,  1877. 

McKinzie,  Miss  Jane 

Profession. 

May  2,  1855. 

McRae,  Donald 

Letter. 

September  3,  1873. 

Meek,  Matthew 

Letter. 

November  2,  1877. 

Millar,  William 

Profession. 

December  27,  1843. 

Miller,  Mrs.  Margaret 

Profession. 

May  5,  1867. 

Miller,  William  A. 

Letter. 

March  4,  1866. 

Murphy,  Miss  Anna 

Profession. 

June  26,  1  86  1. 

Murray,  Donald 

Letter. 

April  30,  1875. 

Murray,  Mrs.  Isabella  K. 

Letter. 

February  18,  1863. 

Murray,  Mrs.  Martha  E. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1877. 

Murray,  Thompson  S. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1877. 

Nixon,  Miss  Jane 

Letter. 

1  September  5,  1858. 

Odell,  Miss  Ann  Jennette 

Letter. 

November  i,  1868. 

Odlin,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

June  27,  1866. 

156 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


Names.  How  admitted. 

Ogren,  Clara,  Profession. 

Ojers,  Miss  Annie  M.  Letter. 

Owen,  Marquis  S.  Letter. 

Page,  Arthur  E.  Profession. 

Page,  Nathaniel  Letter. 

Perkins,  Mrs.  Mattie  Profession. 
Peterson,  Mrs.  Charlotte  G.        Profession. 

Reed,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Letter. 

Rice,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Letter. 

Robb,  Charles  Profession. 

Robbins,  Mrs.  Emily  P.  Letter. 

Robbins,  W.  H.  P.  Letter. 

Rockwell,  Mrs.  Matilda  Letter. 

Ronan,  Margaret  Profession. 

Russell,  James  H.  Letter. 

Shaw.  Mrs.  Anna  Letter. 
Schmoldt,  Miss  Wilhelmina        Profession. 

Sisson,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Letter. 

Smith,  Mrs.  J.  B.  Letter. 

Smith,  W.  H.  Letter. 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Clinton  Letter. 

Thayer,  M.  Clinton  Letter. 

Theunis,  Henry  Profession." 

Thompson,  Theodore  Profession. 

Ulch,  Mattie  Profession. 

Vail,  J.  N.  Letter. 

Van  Alstyne,  Eldred  T.  Profession. 

Van  Cott,  Ephriam  Letter. 

Webb,  Mrs.  Annie  S.  Letter. 

Webb,  James  Arthur  Letter. 

Weed,  W.  Letter. 

Wheeler,  Clarence  Letter. 

Whitlaw,  Miss  Isabella  Letter. 

Whittlesley,  Luther  H.  Letter. 

Whitney,  Olive  Profession. 

Wilson,  George  Letter. 

Wright,  George  M.  Profession. 


When  admitted. 
January  12,  1877. 
January  2,  1869. 
September  5,  1862. 
January  12,  1877. 
February  5,  1850. 
May  4,  1877. 
February  22,  1860. 
May  I,  1859. 
April  30,  1868. 
June  24,  1858. 
September  6,  1861. 
September  6,  1861. 
October  30,  1874. 
January  12,  1877. 
June  2,  1871. 
November  3,  1876. 
May  2,  1851. 
May  5,  1865. 
January  12,  1877. 
December  21,  1870. 
June  27,  1853. 
June  27,  1853. 
May  2,  1866. 
April  30,  1855. 
January  12,  1877. 
February  26,  1873. 
August  30,  1850. 
April  I,  1885. 
June  29,  1877. 
June  29,  1877. 
June  25,  1852. 
January  12,  1877. 
October  26,  1859. 
June  27,  1866. 
January  12,  1877. 
March  I,  1872. 
March  3,  1877. 


PRESENT   MEMBERS. 


Names.  How  admitted. 

Abbott,  Arthur  H.  Profession. 

Abel,  Mrs.  Margaret  Letter. 

Abel,  Williairi  Profession. 

Adams,  Benjamin  Letter. 

Adams,  John  B.  Profession. 

Adams,  Mrs.  Louisa  H.  Profession. 

Adams,  Miss  Nettie  Roberts  Letter. 

Adams,  Miss  Nilla  M.  Profession. 

Alexander,  Mrs.  Lizzie  F.  Letter. 

Allen,  Mrs.  Emily  E.  Letter. 

Allen,  Hamilton  F.  Profession. 

Allen,  Ira  W.  Letter. 

Allen,  Mrs.  Ira  W.  Letter. 

Allen,  Ira  W.,  Jr.  Profession. 

Allen,  Philip  Schuyler  Profession. 

Andrews,  Edmund  Letter. 

Andrews,  Edmund  L.       '  Profession. 

Andrews,  Mrs.  Frances  M.  Letter. 

Andrews,  Frank  Taylor  Profession. 

Andrews,  E.  Wylys  Profession. 

Armour,  Mrs.  Barbara  Letter. 

Armour,  Mrs.  Bertha  Cobb  Profession. 

Armstrong,  Mrs.  Delia  M.  Letter. 

Armstrong,  George  B.  Letter. 

Armstrong,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Letter. 

Atwell,  Benjamin  H.  Profession. 

Atwell,  Harry  A.  Profession. 

Atwell,  Marshall  B.  Profession. 

Atwood,  Mrs.  Alvira  Letter. 

Atwood,  Miss  Alvira  G.  Letter. 

Atwood,  George  H.  Letter. 

Auld,  Miss  Catherine  Letter. 

Austin,  Mrs.  Anna  S.  Profession. 

Averell,  Albert  J.  Profession. 

Averell,  Mrs.  Anna  B.  Profession. 

157 


When  admitted. 
January  2,  1877. 
May  2, 1879. 
December  2,  1885. 
August  31,  1853. 
May  2,  1869. 
April  28,  1874. 
March  i,  1891. 
June  29,  1864. 
June  3,  1888. 
February  2,  1890. 
October  3,  1888. 
November  5,  1875. 
November  5,  1875.. 
June  6,  1886. 
January  3, 1892. 
February  29,  1856. 
May  30,  1883. 
June  29,  1877. 
January  12,  1877. 
October  30,  1874. 
June  29,  1864. 
June  8,  1887. 
February  6,  1870. 
December  31,  1890. 
December  31,  1890. 
May  29,  1889. 
December  3,  1890. 
December  3,  1890. 
February  29,  1892. 
February  29,  1892. 
February  29,  1892. 
June  6,  1886. 
November.  1875. 
April  26,  1858. 
April  26,  1858. 


158 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Avery,  Mrs.  Phoebe  A. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1864. 

Baird,  Mrs.  Jenet  M. 

Profession. 

March  i,  1865. 

Baker,  Mrs.  Agnes  S. 

Letter. 

December  30,  1874. 

Baker,  Mrs.  Anna  F. 

Letter. 

May  5,  1876. 

Baker,  Miss  Bertha 

Profession. 

November  28,  1888. 

Baker,  Francis  S. 

Profession. 

November  25,  1890. 

Baker,  Henry  D. 

Professsion. 

November  29,  1889. 

Baker,  Maurice  K. 

Profession. 

March  30,  1887. 

Baker,  William  M. 

Letter. 

December  30,  1874. 

Balcom,  Mrs.  Jane  E. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1875. 

Ballard,  DeWitt  P. 

Profession. 

May  2,  1866. 

Ballenger,  Horace 

Letter. 

December  7.  1890. 

Barker,  Mrs.  Cordelia  E. 

Profession. 

June  26,  1878. 

Barker,  Mrs.  Jessie  N. 

Profession. 

June  26,  1878. 

Barnes,  Edward 

Profession. 

December  30.  1890. 

Barr,  Miss  Winona 

Profession. 

February  i,  1888. 

Barrett,  Edgar  G. 

Letter. 

February  4,  1885. 

Barrett,  Miss  Laura  T. 

Profession. 

May  30,  1883. 

Barrett,  Miss  Miriam 

Profession. 

May  30,  1883. 

Bass,  Miss  Catherine 

Letter. 

June  6,  1878. 

Bass,  George 

Profession. 

June  6,  1878. 

Baumann,  Mrs.  Emily  Grace 

Profession. 

December  7,  1884. 

Beach,  Myron  H. 

Letter. 

December  2,  1885. 

Beach,  Mrs.  M.  H. 

Letter. 

December  2,  1885. 

Becker,  Frederick  W. 

Letter. 

May  n,  1877. 

Belden,  Miss  Bertha 

Profession. 

February  3,  1886. 

Belden,  Charles  W. 

Profession. 

March  i,  1865. 

Bellas,  Thomas  H. 

Profession. 

September  3,  1875. 

Benton,  George  C. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1865. 

Benton,  George  P. 

Letter. 

October  3,  1883. 

Benton,  Mrs.  Susan  D. 

Letter. 

December  31,  1871. 

Benton,  Miss  H.  Tirza 

Profession. 

October  3,  1883. 

Betticher,  Mrs.  P.  D. 

Letter. 

December  3,  1884. 

Birch,  Hugh  T. 

Profession. 

January  4,  1891. 

Bishopp,  Weller  D. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Black,  Miss  Maggie 

Letter. 

October  2,  1885. 

Blackstone,  Mrs.  Isabella  F. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1875. 

Blair,  Edward  T. 

Profession. 

August  28,  1872. 

Blair,  Mrs.  Sarah  M. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1855. 

Blair,  William 

Profession. 

April  27,  1859. 

Blakeslee,  H.  L. 

Letter. 

November  3,  1858. 

Blakeslee,  Mrs.  H.  L. 

Letter. 

November  3,  1858. 

Blanchard,  Mrs.  Sarah 

Profession. 

April  30,  1855. 

Bloom,  John  Henry 

Letter. 

May  n,  1877. 

NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


159 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Boice,  Hugh  M. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1877, 

Boice,  Mrs.  Martha  J. 

Letter. 

January  30,  1884. 

Bond,  Thomas  S. 

Letter. 

March  3,  1876. 

Bowen,  Mrs.  Dinah 

Profession. 

March  26,  1884. 

Bowles,  Mrs.  Eleanor  C. 

Profession. 

April  11,  1885. 

Bracken,  Miss  Lena  M. 

Profession. 

May  n,  1877. 

Bracken,  Miss  Waldena 

Profession. 

January  2,  1880. 

Brackett,  Mrs.  Julia  S. 

Profession. 

December  i,  1886. 

Bradford,  Theron 

Profession. 

March  30,  1887. 

Bradley,  Edward  L. 

Profession. 

April  30,  1880. 

Bradley,  Mrs.  Marion  A. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1871. 

Brandt,  Miss  Martha 

Profession. 

October  3,  1888. 

Brandt,  William 

Profession. 

April  3.  1889. 

Brewer,  Frederick  Gray 

Profession. 

March  29,  1892. 

Broadfoot,  Miss  Jessie  M. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1891. 

Brooks,  Miss  Henrietta  F. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1870. 

Brooks,  Miss  Sarah  A. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1870. 

Brass,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

October  24,  1848. 

Brown,  Mrs.  A.  F. 

Profession. 

August  29,  1866. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Charles  B. 

Profession. 

September  3,  1873. 

Brown,  George  U. 

Letter. 

September  28,  1887. 

Brown,  S.  Lockwood 

Letter. 

August  6,  1842. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Profession. 

December  30,  1868. 

Browne,  Edward 

Letter. 

October  31,  1879. 

Browne,  Mrs.  Ella  C. 

Letter. 

October  31,  1879. 

Browne,  Miss  Evangelina 

Profession. 

February  3,  1886. 

Browne,  George  F. 

Profession. 

March  29,  1886. 

Brucklocker,  Miss  Mary 

Letter. 

November  29,  1882. 

Bruen,  Mrs.  Nellie  J. 

Letter. 

February  2,  1887. 

Bruen,  William  G. 

Letter. 

February  2,  1887. 

Brust,  Miss  Louisa 

Profession. 

November  3,  1876. 

Bryant,  Mrs.  Antonette  Re  Qua 

Letter. 

October  3,  1883. 

Bryant,  Henry  W. 

Profession. 

March  30,  1887. 

Buell,  Miss  Elizabeth  Averill 

Profession. 

December  30,  1891. 

Buell,  Mrs.  Maude  Hoyne 

Profession. 

April  2,  1890. 

Burch,  Mrs.  Eliza  F. 

Letter. 

March  6,  1869. 

Burbank,  Edward  A. 

Letter. 

December  7,  1856. 

Burke,  Daniel  J. 

Profession. 

May  29,  1889. 

Byleveld,  Mrs.  A. 

Profession. 

April  30,  1880. 

Byleveld,  Miss  Ambrosina  M. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1883. 

Byleveld,  Miss  Caroline 

Profession. 

October  31,  1879. 

Byleveld,  Miss  Elizabeth 

Profession. 

October  31,  1879. 

Byleveld,  John 

Profession. 

April  30,  1880. 

Cable,  Miss  Fanny 

Profession. 

July  17,  1889. 

i6o 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names.  How  admitted. 

Cable,  Mrs.  Jennie  Letter. 

Cable,  Miss  Josephine  Profession. 

Caesar,  James  Letter. 

Cameron,  James  Profession. 

Campbell,  Mrs.  Mary  Belle  Letter. 

Campbell,  Mrs.  Mary  L.  Letter. 

Campbell,  William  N.  Profession. 

Carlisle,  Samuel  Letter. 

Carpenter,  Mrs.  Emma  Profession. 

Carter,  George  T.  Profession. 

Carter,  Mrs.  Margaret  O.  Letter. 

Carter,  Thomas  B.  Letter. 

Cass,  Geo.  W.  Profession. 

Cass,  Mrs.  Rebecca  J.  Letter. 

Caton,  Arthur  J.  Letter. 
Chapin,  Mrs.  Eliz.  Mattocks       Profession. 

Chapin,  Miss  Ella  Profession. 

Chapin,  Miss  Fannie  Profession, 

Chappell,  Howard  F.  Profession. 

Chappell,  Miss  Julia  B.  Profession. 

Childs,  Mrs.  Amy  Profession. 

Childs,  Miss  Margaret  I.  Letter. 

Churchill,  Mrs.  Sophia  Profession. 

Clark,  Mrs.  Clara  M.  Profession. 

Clark,  Mrs.  Jennie  Q.  Letter. 

Clark,  Mrs.  John  Letter. 

Clark,  Mrs.  Louisa  C.  Letter. 

Clark,  Peter  S.  Profession. 

Clark,  Robert  G.  Profession. 

Clark,  Stewart  Profession. 

Clough,  Harry  S.  Profession. 

Coaker,  Watson  Profession. 

Cobb,  Mrs.  Caroline  J.  Profession. 

Cobb,  Stephen  A,  Profession. 

Coey,  David  Profession. 

Colver,  Mrs.  Ella  Profession. 

Combs,  Miss  Vivia  Linmere  Profession. 

Comings,  Mrs.  Jennie  C.  Profession. 

Cone,  Miss  Josephine  Profession. 

Cone,  Mrs.  Lydia  Harper  Letter. 

Cone,  Orlando  M.  Profession. 

Conkling,  Mrs.  B.  H.  Letter. 

Connell,  Miss  Emily  J.  Profession. 

Connell,  Mrs.  Fannie  M.  Letter. 


When  admitted. 

December  2,  1885. 
May  31,  1886. 
April  29,  1892. 
October  12,  1884. 
June  2,  1886. 
January  3,  1879. 
March  2,  1877. 
February  20,  1884. 
May  3,  1845. 
July  i,  1864. 
December  30,  1874. 
June  I,  1842. 
June  8,  1887. 
June  8,  1887. 
March  5,  1875. 
May  29,  1889. 
January  12,  1877. 
March  2,  1877. 
January  12,  1877. 
January  12,  1877. 
December  22,  1869. 
January  3,  1879. 
June  29,  1877. 
November  28,  1883. 
March  3,  1876. 
January  4,  1878. 
March  3,  1876. 
November  29,  1889. 
February  28,  1879. 
March  5,  1875. 
November  30,  1887. 
January  2,  1880. 
January  12,  1877. 
April  3,  1889. 
January  12,  1887. 
March  2,  1877. 
October  2,  1887. 
February  28,  1872. 
June  2,  1886. 
June  6,  1886. 
May  29,  1889. 
June  8,  1887. 
June  28,  1882. 
January  3,  1879. 


NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


161 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Cook,  Harlan  D. 

Letter. 

September  29,  1886. 

Cook,  Harlan  E. 

Profession. 

November  28,  1888. 

Corthell,  Mrs.  Mary  M. 

Letter. 

June  24,  1858. 

Couch,  Mrs.  Caroline  E. 

Letter. 

October  18,  1865. 

Couch,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  G. 

Letter. 

December  28,  1870. 

Cowles,  James  A. 

Letter. 

January  7,  1866. 

Cowles,  Mrs.  Sarah  F. 

Profession. 

February  28,  1868. 

Craig,  Adam 

Letter/ 

May  8,  1882. 

Crawford,  Mrs.  Ella  T. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1879. 

Cronise,  Miss  Carrie  C. 

Profession. 

March  28,  1883. 

Crouch,  Robert  B. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

Crouch,  Mrs.  Mary  F. 

Letter. 

June  29.  1877. 

Crumbaugh,  Mrs.  Clara  A. 

Profession. 

November  29,  1886. 

Crumbaugh,  Frederick 

Profession. 

May  2,  1879. 

Crumbaugh,  Mrs.  M.  P. 

Letter. 

January  7,  1866. 

Crumbaugh,  Mrs.  Kate  B. 

Profession. 

June  8,  1887. 

Crumbaugh,  Lucius  B. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Cummings,  Alexander 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Cummings,  Mrs.  Emily 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Cummings,  Miss  Laura  M. 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Cundall,  Miss  Fannie 

Letter. 

April  3,  1889. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Profession. 

March  6,  1892. 

Curtis,  Lester 

Letter. 

December  29,  1869. 

Curtis,  Logan  H. 

Profession. 

May  29,  1889. 

Curtis,  Miss  Mary  Isabel, 

Profession. 

January  3,  1892. 

Curtis,  Miss  Sallie  Palmer 

Profession. 

January  3,  1892. 

Curtis,  Uri  B. 

Profession. 

March  30,  1887. 

Daemicke,  Henry  P. 

Profession. 

December  7,  1890. 

Darst,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

Davis,  Mrs.  Harriet  W. 

Letter. 

May  i,  1864. 

Davis,  Lewis  H. 

Letter. 

May  i,  1864. 

Davidson,  A.  W. 

Letter. 

May  4,  1844. 

Day,  Charles 

Profession. 

June  6,  1886. 

Day,  Miss  Clara  E. 

Profession. 

March  31,  1886. 

Dennis,  George  J. 

Letter. 

April  2,  1890. 

Densmore,  Miss  Carrie  B. 

Profession. 

January  2,  1877. 

Densmore,  Mrs.  E.  W. 

Letter. 

August  28,  1872. 

Dent,  Mrs.  Susan  S. 

Letter. 

May  30,  1883. 

Dent,  Thomas 

Letter. 

May  30,  1883. 

Dexter,  Mrs.  Helen 

Profession. 

July  2,  1875. 

Dickinson,  Miss  Jennie 

Profession. 

January  6,  1873. 

Dixon,  Mrs.  Ella  B. 

Profession. 

May  5,  1867. 

Dixon,  L.  B. 

Profession. 

May  5,  1867. 

Doyle,  Hugh 

Profession. 

May  5,  1867. 

l62 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Driggs,  Arthur  B. 

Letter. 

April  3,  1889. 

Dunham,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  H. 

Profession. 

August  31,  1844. 

Dunham,  John  H. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1844. 

Dunham,  Miss  Virginia 

Profession. 

February  28,  1872. 

Dunlap,  Alva 

Letter. 

February  29,  1892. 

Durgan,  Edwin  A. 

Profession. 

May  29,  1889. 

Durkee,  Mrs.  Julia  E. 

Letter. 

September  12,  1879. 

Dyer,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  S. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1844. 

Eames,  Mrs.  Emily  S. 

Letter. 

June  22,  1864. 

Eaton,  Mrs.  Eva  A. 

Letter. 

January  15,  1885. 

Eck,  Miss  Amanda  S. 

Profession. 

November  30,  1890. 

Eck,  Miss  Louisa  B. 

Profession. 

April  2,  1884. 

Eck,  Miss  Sophy  M. 

Profession. 

April  2,  1884. 

Elcock,  Miss  Elizabeth 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Elcock,  Edward  G. 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Elmendorf,  Mrs.  Nancy  S. 

Letter. 

March  5,  1875. 

Ely,  Mrs.  Emma  Densmore 

Letter. 

February  29,  1892. 

Ely,  Mrs.  Frances  Elizabeth 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Ely,  James  O. 

Letter. 

June  8,  1887. 

Ely,  Miss  Rose 

Letter. 

December  16,  1891. 

Eoff,  Mrs.  Hannah  M. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Ettinger,  Miss  Anna  N. 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Ettinger,  Charles  D. 

Letter. 

June  3,  1885. 

Ettinger,  Mrs.  Clara  S. 

Letter. 

June  3,  1885. 

Evans,  Miss  Margaret 

Letter. 

November  26,  1884. 

Everett,  John  C. 

Letter. 

March  25,  1885. 

Fargo,  Charles  E.,  Jr. 

Profession. 

June  2,  1889. 

Farwell,  Mrs.  Ava  W. 

Profession. 

July  I,  1891. 

Farwell,  Mrs.  Sarah  G. 

Letter. 

February  i,  1888. 

Fauntleroy,  Henry 

Letter. 

January  25,  1879. 

Fenn,  Robert  W. 

Letter. 

April  2,  1890. 

Fickenworth,  F.  H. 

Profession. 

May  2,  1862. 

Finkbone,  Mrs.  Helen  R. 

Profession. 

November  28,  1883 

Fogg,  Mrs.  Catherine 

Profession. 

May  4,  1877. 

Foote,  Erastus 

Letter. 

November  2,  1869. 

Foote,  Mrs.  Sarah  P. 

Letter. 

November  2,  1869. 

Forrester,  Miss  Jessie  Louise 

Letter. 

June  29,  1892. 

Forsyth,  Benjamin  H. 

Profession. 

June  8,  1887. 

Forsyth,  Daniel  S. 

Profession. 

November  30,  1890. 

Forsyth,  Logan  Wallace 

Profession. 

December  30,  1891. 

Forsyth,  Robert 

Letter. 

January  30,  1883. 

Forsyth,  Robert 

Profession. 

November  25,  1890. 

Forsythe,  Mrs.  Fannie  E. 

Letter. 

March  23,  1885. 

Forsythe,  Geo.  A. 

Letter. 

June  14,  1858. 

NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Foster,  Mrs.  Lydia 

Letter. 

March  2,  1877. 

Fowler,  Bernard 

Letter. 

January  30,  1883. 

Fowler,  Charles  H. 

Letter. 

April  4,  1884. 

Fowler,  Mrs.  Ida 

Letter. 

April  4,  1884. 

Fowler,  Mrs.  Martha  A. 

Letter. 

January  30,  1883. 

Froeber,  Albert 

Profession. 

October  2,  1889. 

Froeber,  Miss  Emma 

Profession. 

October  2,  1889. 

Froeber,  William 

Profession. 

June  15,  1886. 

Fuller,  Miss  S.  M. 

Letter. 

June  6,  1886. 

Fulton,  A.  W. 

Letter. 

February  4,  1885. 

Gates,  Miss  Carrie  E. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1875. 

Geddes,  Alexander 

Profession. 

June  26,  1878. 

Geddes,  Mrs.  Alexander 

Letter. 

June  26,  1878. 

Gilbert,  Miss  E.  C. 

Letter. 

December  26,  1883. 

Giles,  Miss  Anna  Harper 

Profession. 

December  30,  1874. 

Giles,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  H. 

Profession. 

March  i,  1865. 

Giles,  William  F. 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Gillespie,  John  M. 

Profession. 

November  3,  1876. 

Gillespie,  Joseph  M. 

Profession. 

November  25,  1890. 

Gillespie,  Mrs.  Margaret 

Letter. 

February  6,  1870. 

Gillespie,  Miss  Margaret  E. 

Profession. 

December  3,  1890. 

Glassner,  Charles  D. 

Profession. 

March  29,  1886. 

Glendinning,  Mrs.  Gallic 

Letter. 

February  4,  1885. 

Glover,  Miss  Fannie 

Letter. 

December  29,  1875. 

Glover,  Miss  Priscilla  L. 

Profession. 

April  4,  1886. 

Goodman,  Miss  Ella 

Letter. 

March  28,  1883. 

Goodman,  Guy 

Profession. 

November  27,  1889. 

Goodrich,  J.  G. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Goodrich,  Miss  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Goodrich,  Mrs.  Sarah  C. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Goodwin,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

December  30,  1866. 

Goold,  Mrs.  Janie  C. 

Letter. 

March  28,  1888. 

Gould,  Mrs.  Amelia 

Letter. 

July  I,  1874. 

Gould,  Miss  Fannie  D. 

Profession. 

September  15,  1876. 

Gould,  Mrs.  John  S. 

Letter. 

June  27,  1855. 

Gould,  Miss  Sarah  D.        ' 

Profession. 

March  28,  1883. 

Gould,  John  Stearns 

Letter. 

June  27,  1855. 

Graf,  Mrs.  Paulina 

Profession. 

May  4,  1877. 

Grant,  Mrs.  Anna  F. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1878. 

Grant,  Charles  Vincent 

Profession. 

December  30,  1891. 

Grant,  JohnC. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1875. 

Grant,  Mrs.  Lillian  W. 

Profession. 

January  30,  1889. 

Gray,  Mrs.  A.  O.  P. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1858. 

•Gray,  Augustus  R. 

Letter. 

July  3,  1868. 

164 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names.  How  admitted. 

Gray,  Mrs.  Augustus  R.  Letter. 

Gray,  Charles  H.  Profession. 

Gray,  Franklin  D.  Letter. 

Green,  Robert  L.  Letter. 

Greenhill,  Mrs.  Grace  L.  Profession. 

Griffiths,  Mrs.  Martha  E.  Profession. 

Grunewaldt,  Mrs.  Julia  Letter. 

Gurnee,  Mrs.  Denton  Letter. 
Guernsey,  Mrs.  Mary  V.  Bryant  Profession. 

Haines,  John  Allen  Profession. 

Hall,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Letter. 

Hall,  Robert  G.  Letter. 

Hallock,  Mrs.  Clara  B.  Letter. 

Halstrom,  Miss  Carolina  Profession. 

Hanna,  James  Letter. 

Harmon,  Mrs.  E.  C.  Letter. 

Harmount,  Mrs.  Jennette  C.  Letter. 

Hartshorn,  Thomas  C.  Profession. 

Hartwell,  Mrs.  Caroline  N.  Letter. 

Harvey,  Miss  Addie  A.  Profession. 

Harvey,  Miss  Belle  B.  Letter. 

Harvey,  Mrs.  Belle  S.  B.  Letter. 

Harvey,  Elbert  A.  Profession. 

Harvey,  Miss  Elvira  Profession. 

Harvey,  George  L.  Letter. 

Harvey,  John  R.  Letter. 

Harvey,  Mrs.  Miraetta  D.  Profession. 

Harvey,  Paul  S.  Profession. 

Harvey,  Robert  H.  Letter. 

Harvey,  T.  W.  Letter. 

Harvey,  T.  W.,  Jr.  Letter. 

Hascall,  Mrs.  M.  S.  Letter. 

Haskell,  Mrs.  A.  J.  Letter. 

Hastings,  Mrs.  Amanda  Letter. 

Hawes,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  D.  Profession. 

Hawes,  Kirk  Letter. 

Hayden,  Harvey  S.  Letter. 

Hayes,  Miss  Cornelia  S.  Letter. 

Helm,  Lynn  Letter. 

Helm,  Miss  Nellie  Letter. 

Helm,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Profession. 

Henderson,  Mrs.  Helen  E.  Letter. 

Henderson,  Howard  Letter. 

Henderson,  Miss  Nellie  Letter. 


When  admitted. 

July  3,  1868. 
October  i,  1890. 
May  2,  1858. 
February  5,  1886. 
May  i,  1859. 
January  12,  1876. 
January  3,  1851. 
December  31,  1862. 
March  30,  1887. 
January  4,  1891. 
December  2,  1885. 
December  2,  1885. 
October  I,  1884. 
February  3,  1886. 
January  17,  1883. 
November  29,  1882. 
May  19,  1886. 
January  2,  1880. 
June  24,  1891. 
February  3,  1886. 
November  28,  1888. 
November  28,  1888. 
June  2,  1889. 
June  2,  1889. 
November  28,  1888. 
November  28,  1888. 
February  3,  1886. 
June  2,  1889. 
November  28,  1888. 
November  28,  1888. 
November  28,  1888. 
October  5,  1890. 
December  30,  1874. 
May  30,  1883. 
February  28,  1872. 
October  31,  1866. 
November  5,  1875. 
September  2,  1891. 
November  28,  1883. 
August  31,  1892. 
October  15,  1884. 
June  29,  1844. 
December  28,  1870. 
December  22,  1869. 


NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


Names.  How  admitted. 

Herrick,  Mrs.  L.  A.  Letter. 

Herriott,  William  J.  Letter. 

Hibben,  Samuel  Entriken  Profession. 

Hoard,  Mrs.  Bessie  Profession. 

Holliday,  Mrs.  Amelia  Letter. 

Holliday,  James  L.  Profession. 

Holman,  Thomas  S.  Profession. 

Holt,  Mrs.  Camilla  McP.  Letter. 

Holt,  Charles  S.  Letter. 

Holt,  George  H.  Letter. 

Hoyne,  Mrs.  Fannie  H.  Letter. 

Hunt,  Mrs.  Amelia  R.  Letter. 

Hunt,  Miss  Clara  Profession. 

Hunt,  Clement  M.  Profession. 

Hunt,  Miss  Mary  J.  Profession. 

Hunt,  William  F.  Profession. 

Huntington,  Mrs.  W.  W.  Letter. 
Hutchinson,  Mrs.  Frances  A.      Profession. 

Iddings,  Miss  Alice  Ida  Profession. 

Isaacs,  Miss  Ida  Profession. 

Isaacs,  Max  Profession. 

Isham,  Miss  Ann  Eliza  Profession. 

Isham,  Mrs.  Fannie  B.    '  Letter. 

Isham,  Miss  Frances  Profession. 

Jackson,  Huntington  W.  Letter. 

Jacobson,  Frank  Profession. 

Jaggard,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  N.  Letter. 

Johnson,  Miss  Annie  Profession. 

Johnson,  Miss  Bessie  Profession. 

Johnson,  Miss  Cecilia  Profession. 

Johnson,  Ernest  C.  Letter. 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Helen  W.  Letter. 

Johnson,  Miss  Hilda  C.  Profession. 

Johnson,  Lorenzo  M.  Letter. 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Mattie  H.  Profession. 

Johnson,  Miss  Maud  S.  Profession. 

Johnston,  Mrs.  Mary  L.  Letter. 

Johnston,  Hugh  McBirney  Profession. 

Johnston,  H.  Morris  Letter. 

Johnston,  Morris  L.  Profession. 

Jones,  Frank  E.  Letter. 

Jones,  Miss  Freda  Profession. 

Jones,  Mrs.  Harriet  E.  Profession. 

Jones,  Robert  D.  Letter. 


When  admitted. 

November  2,  1866. 
June  26,  1878. 
June  24,  1891. 
October  30,  1874. 
June  i,  1870. 
January  12,  1877. 
January  12,  1877. 
December  3,  1890. 
December  3,  1890. 
February  3,  1886. 
April  i,  1870. 
November  29,  1886. 
June  29,  1855. 
June  28,  1865. 
November  28,  1883. 
December  5,  1886. 
December  i,  1889. 
January  12,  1877. 
May  31,  1886. 
March  31,  1886. 
March  29,  1886. 
January  24,  1883. 
May  2,  1862. 
May  10,  1892. 
March  3,  1871. 
January  12,  1877. 
February  29,  1892. 
January  2,  1880. 
March  3 1,  1886. 
January  2,  1880. 
May  31,  1886. 
November  29,  1882. 
February  5,  1886. 
November  29,  1882. 
June  28,  1882. 
February  5,  1886. 
March  3 1,  1886. 
March  24,  1886. 
March  31,  1886. 
March  24,  1886. 
May  28,  1890. 
April  2,  1890. 
April  26,  1858. 
May  28,  1890. 


i66 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names.  How  admitted. 

Jones,  Miss  Rose  F.  Letter. 

Jones,  Thomas  D.  Letter. 

Judd,  Mrs.  Adeline  R.  Letter. 

Judson,  Mrs.  Mary  M.  Profession. 

Keep,  Albert  Letter. 

Keep,  Frederick  Profession. 

Keep,  Mrs.  Harriet  Letter. 
Keith,  Mrs  Janette  B.  McD.      Profession. 

Kellogg,  Miss  Emma  C.  Profession. 

Kellogg,  Mrs.  Martha  L.  Letter. 

Kellogg,  Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Letter. 

Kent,  Miss  Eliza  Letter. 

King,  Edward  L.  Profession. 

Kinsley,  Mrs.  Angie  Profession. 

Kirk,  Miss  Sarah  E.  Letter. 
Knight,  Mrs.  Evangeline  M.       Letter. 

Knight,  Frederick  J,  Profession. 

Knox,  Miss  Aletta  Hartwell  Letter. 

Knox,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  H.  Letter. 

Knox,  Miss  Marian  Ralston  Profession. 

Kohansky,  Edward  Letter. 

Krumm,  Miss  Emma  C.  Profession. 

Lane,  Mrs.  Isabella  Profession. 

LaMonte,  Mrs.  Margaret  Letter. 

LaMonte,  Mrs.  S.  Letter. 

LaMonte,  William  O.  Profession. 

Lawrence,  Miss  Anna  B.  Letter. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  Mary  S.  Letter. 

Lee,  Bernard  Lysle  Letter. 

Lee,  Clyde  Duncan  Letter. 

Lehmann,  Miss  Emma  G.  Profession. 

Lehmann,  Miss  Ida  D.  Profession. 

Leiger,  Miss  Esther  Profession. 

Leonard,  F.  D.  Letter. 

Leibetrau,  Miss  Carrie  L.  Profession. 

Lincoln,  Mrs.  Mary  H.  Profession. 

Livermore,  Charles  F.  Profession. 

Livingston,  Miss  Jane  Profession. 

Lloyd,  E.  Starr  Letter. 

Lloyd,  Mrs.  Helen  M.  Letter. 

Lloyd,  Mrs.  Henry  D.  Profession. 

Locke,  Miss  Constance  Letter. 

Locke,  John  Letter. 

Loeffel,  Miss  Ida  Profession. 


When  admitted. 
February  2,  1887. 
November  22,  1882. 
October  i,  1890. 
November  3,  1876. 
July  3,  1872. 
March  2,  1877. 
July  3,  1872. 
April  4,  1886. 
January  3,  1872. 
February  26,  1873. 
September  5,  1862, 
May  2,  1879. 
January  12,  1877. 
February  24,  1858. 
January  10,  1873. 
March  31,  1886. 
May  30,  1883. 
June  24,  1891. 
June  24,  1891. 
March  2,  1892. 
January  3,  1868. 
October  2,  1889. 
January  4,  1857. 
October  3,  1883. 
December  29,  1869, 
January  12,  1877. 
September  2,  1874. 
September  2,  1874. 
November  i,  1891. 
January  3,  1892. 
April  2,  1890. 
April  2,  1890. 
April  3,  1889. 
November  3,  1867. 
November  28,  1888, 
January  12,  1877. 
November  28,  1883. 
May  2,  1879. 
April  4,  1886. 
April  4,  1886. 
April  22,  1858. 
April  12,  1884. 
April  12,  1884. 
February  3,  1886. 


NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


167 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Loeffler,  Miss  Paulina 

Profession. 

January  2,  1880. 

Lowry,  Alexander 

Letter. 

December  15,  1887. 

Lowry,  Mrs.  Martha  B. 

Letter. 

December  15,  1887. 

Luckow,  Miss  Freda 

Profession. 

October  3,  1888. 

Lund,  Miss  Francis  M. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Mack,  Mrs.  Frances 

Letter. 

February  4,  1885. 

Malcolm,  Caspar 

Profession. 

April  22,  1891. 

Manierre,  Mrs.  Ann  H. 

Profession. 

April  22,  1858. 

Manierre,  Benjamin 

Profession. 

June  3,  1879. 

Manierre,  Edward 

Profession. 

June  3,  1879. 

Marsh,  Mrs.  Bertha 

Profession. 

October  29,  1884. 

Marsh,  Miss  Sarah  E. 

Profession. 

June  25,  1852. 

Marshall,  Mrs.  Margaret  D. 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Marshall,  Thomas  H. 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Marshall,  William  A. 

Profession. 

February  2,  1887. 

Martin,  Miss  Edith  A. 

Profession. 

January  2,  1880. 

Martin,  Mrs.  Emma 

Profession. 

February  2,  1887. 

Martyn,  Chauncey  White 

Letter. 

November  28,  1888. 

Mason,  Mrs.  Amelia  R. 

Letter. 

April  29,  1858. 

Mason,  Edward  H. 

Profession. 

February  2,  1887. 

Mason,  Huntington 

Profession. 

March  29,  1892. 

Mason,  Mrs.  Julia  S.    , 

Letter. 

March  20,  1868. 

Mason,  Julian  S. 

Profession. 

April  29,  1892. 

Mason,  Roswell  B. 

Profession. 

January  29,  1890. 

Mather,  Miss  Emily 

Letter. 

August  31,  1860. 

Mathison,  Soren 

Profession. 

January  30,  1883. 

Matteson,  Joseph 

Profession. 

December  21,  1870. 

Matteson,  Mrs.  Lettie  B. 

Letter. 

April  4,  1890. 

Matthei,  Miss  Lena 

Profession. 

February  i,  1888. 

Mattocks,  Miss  Esther  L. 

Profession. 

May  29,  1889. 

Mattocks,  Mrs.  Sarah  F. 

Profession. 

May  29,  1889. 

Maxwell,  Mrs.  Alice  R. 

Profession. 

December  30,  1874. 

May,  Miss  Jessie  E. 

Letter. 

October  I,  1890. 

McBirney,  George  Day 

Profession. 

February  3,  1886. 

McBirney,  Hugh 

Letter. 

November  29,  1882. 

McBirney,  Mrs.  Hugh 

Letter. 

November  29,  1882. 

McCauley,  Miss  Anna  Matilda 

Profession. 

January  3,  1892. 

McCauley,  Mrs.  Clara  A. 

Letter. 

December  16,  1891. 

McClaughry,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  C. 

Letter. 

April  29,  1892. 

McClaughry,  John  Glenn 

.Letter. 

April  29,  1892. 

McClaughry,  Miss  Mary  C. 

Letter. 

April  29,  1892. 

McClaughry,  Matthew  W. 

Letter. 

April  29.  1892. 

McClaughry,  Robert  W. 

Letter. 

April  29,  1892. 

McClure,  John  Stuart 

Profession. 

January  3,  1892. 

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Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

McCormick,  Alexander  A. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1888. 

McCormick,  Mrs.  Katherine  M. 

Profession. 

April  30,  1875. 

McCoull,  Mrs.  Kari  P.  G. 

Letter. 

October  i,  1890. 

McDonald,  Neill 

Letter. 

March  28,  1888. 

McDowell,  John 

Letter. 

December  31,  1858. 

McDowell,  Miss  Mabel  J. 

Profession. 

December  3,  1890. 

McFarland,  Miss  Maggie 

Letter. 

December  n,  1889. 

McGee,  Harry  L. 

Profession. 

December  7,  1890. 

McGee,  Willford  J. 

Profession. 

December  7,  1890. 

McGennis,  Mrs.  Isabel  C. 

Letter. 

October  7,  1888. 

McGill,  Mrs.  Agnes 

Profession. 

November  2,  1877. 

McGil],  Miss  Mary 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Me  Go  wan,  Dorrell 

Profession. 

December  i,  1886. 

McNeill,  Miss  Stella 

Profession. 

May  29,  1889. 

McPherson,  Mrs.  Lucy  B. 

Letter. 

November  29,  1882. 

McSwan,  Finlay 

Letter. 

March  2,  1892. 

Means,  Mrs.  Carrie  Liggett 

Letter. 

January  30,  1889 

Means,  John  M. 

Letter. 

September  27,  1886. 

Medill,  Mrs.  Katherine  F. 

Letter. 

April  30,  1875. 

Meeker,  Mrs.  Grace  Murray 

Profession. 

May  30,  1883. 

Merriam,  Alfred  B. 

Letter. 

March  5,  1880. 

Merriman,  Mrs.  Grace  R. 

Letter. 

•     October  2,  1889. 

Merriman,  Henry  P. 

Letter. 

January  7,  1886. 

Mettler,  William 

Letter. 

April  26,  1858. 

Miller,  Mrs.  Florence  W. 

Profession. 

May  29,  1889. 

Miller,  Mrs.  Mary  J. 

Letter. 

February  3,  1886. 

Mills,  Miss  Ida  F. 

Profession. 

May  4,  1877. 

Mitchell,  Miss  Almira  L. 

Profession. 

May  30,  1888. 

Mitchell,  Mrs.  Malcolm  C. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Mitchell,  JohnR. 

Letter. 

March  28,  1883. 

Moderwell,  Mrs.  Mercella 

Letter. 

October  2,  1889. 

Montgomery,  Joseph  A. 

Letter. 

October  25,  1852. 

Montgomery,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

March.2,  1855. 

Moore,  Mrs.  Harriet  M. 

Letter. 

December  30,  1891. 

Moore,  John  G. 

Profession. 

May  4,  1877. 

Moore,  Miss  Lizzie 

Letter. 

May  30,  1883. 

Moore,  Louis  R. 

Profession. 

November  29,  1889. 

Moore,  Miss  Mamie 

Letter. 

May  30,  1883. 

Moore,  Millard  F. 

Letter. 

July  31,  1889. 

Morris,  Miss  Sadie 

Letter.  • 

March  '2  1,  1888. 

Morse,  Charles  H. 

Letter. 

March  31,  1886. 

Morse,  Miss  Julia  V. 

Profession. 

December  3,  1890. 

Morse,  Mrs.  Laura  C. 

Letter. 

March  31,  1886. 

Mueller,  Otto 

Profession. 

December  i,  1886. 

NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


169 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Munn,  Mrs.  Carrie  D. 

Profession. 

May  5,  1870. 

Murdock,  Arthur  N. 

Letter. 

June  3,  1879. 

Murray,  William  H. 

Letter. 

November  29,  1882. 

Neahr,  Mrs.  Caroline  W. 

Letter. 

February  4,  1885. 

Nelson,  Robert 

Profession. 

February  28,  1872. 

Nelson,  Samuel 

Profession. 

February  28,  1872. 

Nelson,  Mrs.  William 

Profession. 

May  5,  1876. 

Nichols,  J.  F. 

Letter. 

May,  1868. 

Noble,  Mrs.  Catherine 

Profession. 

April  29,  1891. 

Noble,  Miss  Laura  W. 

Profession. 

November  29,  1889. 

Northrop,  Mrs.  Mary  I. 

Letter. 

May  29,  1889. 

Norton,  Edmund 

Profession. 

March  8,  1867. 

O'Bryant,  Stephen  L. 

Letter. 

January  4,  1891. 

Ogden,  Harold  Van  Meter 

Profession. 

August  6,  1887, 

Ogden,  Smith  G. 

Profession. 

July  28,  1886. 

Ogden,  Walter  J. 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Olson,  Mrs.  Anna  S. 

Profession. 

February  3,  1886. 

Olson,  Ernest  A. 

Profession. 

November  29,  1889. 

Olson,  Frederick  Solomon 

Profession. 

December  30,  1891. 

Olson,  Mrs.  Lawrence 

Profession. 

February  3,  1886. 

Orriny,  Mrs.  Ellen 

Profession. 

November  3,  1876. 

Owen,  Mrs.  Marie  A. 

Letter. 

March  28,  1888. 

Page,  Miss  Alice  W. 

Profession. 

April  2,  1884. 

Page,  Charles  L. 

Profession. 

March  23,  1864. 

Page,  Mrs.  Charles  L. 

Profession. 

December  29,  1875. 

Page,  Curtis  H. 

Profession. 

May  31,  1886. 

Page,  Miss  Eleanor  H. 

Profession. 

April  2,  1884. 

Page,  Mrs.  Mary  C. 

Letter. 

April  22,  1870. 

Palmer,  Miss  Loie  S. 

Letter. 

December  3,  1890. 

Pancoast,  J.  Cameron 

Letter. 

January  30,  1884. 

Pancoast,  Mrs.  Rachael  A.  J. 

Letter. 

February  16,  1887. 

Pardridge,  Charles  A. 

Profession. 

April  2,  1890. 

Parks,  Mrs.  Martha  P. 

Letter. 

September  12,  1879. 

Patterson,  Mrs.  Clara  W. 

Letter. 

January  30,  1884. 

Patterson,  Mrs.  Eleanor  R. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1877. 

Patterson,  Henry 

Letter. 

January  30,  1884. 

Patterson,  Mrs.  Jane 

Letter. 

June  29,  1892. 

Patterson,  Miss  Jean  S. 

Letter. 

January  30,  1884. 

Patterson,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

January  30,  1884. 

Patterson,  Thomas  E. 

Letter. 

January  30,  1884. 

Paul,  Miss  Jennette  Gertrude 

Profession. 

January  3,  1892. 

Peck.  Mrs.  Mary  B. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Peck,  Mrs.  Mary  G. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1845. 

Perkins,  Mrs.  Mary  L. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

i  yo 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Terry,  Mrs.  Sophia  H. 

Letter. 

October  15,  1842. 

Pettibone,A.  G. 

Letter. 

February  27,  1882. 

Pettibone,  Mrs.  A.  G. 

Letter. 

February  27,  1882. 

Pike,  Chas.  B. 

Profession. 

February  7,  1886. 

Pike,  Eugene  R. 

Profession. 

February  7,  1886. 

Pike,  Eugene  S. 

Letter. 

October  27,  1869. 

Pike,  Mrs.  Mary  R. 

Letter. 

October  27,  1869. 

Pinney,  William  S. 

Letter. 

February  16,  1887. 

Plohr,  Henry  August 

Profession. 

April  29,  1891. 

Plohr,  Miss  Elizabeth 

Profession. 

October  7,  1888. 

Pomeroy,  Daniel  W. 

Profession. 

June  29,  1892. 

Pomeroy,  Miss  Lulu  May 

Profession. 

June  29,  1892. 

Pomeroy,  Mrs.  M.  Louise 

Profession. 

June  29,  1892. 

Pottinger,  Mrs.  Agnes  E. 

Letter. 

February  I,  1890. 

Pottinger,  David 

Profession. 

January  29,  1890. 

Pottinger,  James 

Profession. 

January  29,  1890. 

Pottinger,  Miss  Jennie 

Profession. 

December  2,  1885. 

Pottinger,  Mrs.  Maggie  E. 

Letter. 

January  29,  1890. 

Pottinger,  Mrs.  Margaret 

Letter. 

June  6,  1886. 

Pottinger,  Miss  Minnie 

Profession. 

December  2,  1885. 

Pratt,  Miss  Adeline 

Letter. 

November  29,  1889. 

Pratt,  Charles  A. 

Letter. 

February  29,  1892. 

Rabe,  Miss  Lizzie 

Profession. 

February  2,  1887. 

Ralston,  Mrs.  Catherine  G. 

Profession. 

March  6,  1869. 

Ralston,  Henry  M. 

Letter. 

March  4,  1870. 

Ralston,  Mrs.  James 

Letter. 

November  28,  1888. 

Ralston,  Mrs.  Julia  S. 

Letter. 

February  4,  1885. 

Raymond,  Mrs.  Mary 

Profession. 

December  30,  1870. 

Reed,  Joseph  H. 

Letter. 

February  29,  1892. 

Reed,  Mrs.  Leander 

Letter. 

January  10,  1873. 

Reid,  Mrs.  Caroline 

Letter. 

December  i,  1889. 

Reid,  William  H. 

Profession. 

April  7,  1889. 

Reichert,  Frederick 

Profession. 

December  I,  1886. 

ReQua,  Mrs.  Catherine  J. 

Letter. 

October  3,  1883. 

ReQua,  Charles  W. 

Letter. 

October  3,  1883. 

ReQua,  William  B. 

Letter. 

October  3,  1883. 

Rice,  Mrs.  Mary  Howarth 

Letter. 

May  29,  1889. 

Rice,  William  E. 

Profession. 

May  29,  1889. 

Richardson,  Miss  Sarah 

Profession. 

April  3,  1889. 

Rockwell,  Mrs.  H.  M. 

Letter. 

January  24,  1883. 

Rodney,  Miss  Katherine  H. 

Profession. 

April  2,  1890. 

Rommeiss,  Miss  Emma 

Letter. 

March  21,  1888. 

Russell,  Robert 

Letter. 

March  28,  1883. 

Sang,  Moy  Fred. 

Profession. 

July  5,  1891. 

NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Sanger,  Mrs.  Mary  C. 

Profession. 

February  26,  1873. 

Sargent,  John  S. 

Letter. 

March  31,  1886. 

Saunders,  Miss  Vida 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

Sayre,  Charles  E. 

Profession. 

September  28,  1887. 

Sayre,  Mrs.  Eveline  B. 

Profession. 

December  i,  1889. 

Sayre,  Miss  Priscilla  C. 

Letter. 

November  29,  1886. 

Sayre,  Mrs.  Ruth  W. 

Letter. 

November  29,  1886. 

Sayre,  Miss  Sarah  W. 

Letter. 

November  29,  1886. 

Schilling,  Miss  A. 

Profession. 

July  2,  1875. 

Schmidt,  Miss  Margaret  E. 

Letter. 

February  3,  1886. 

Schmidt,  Mrs.  Mary 

Profession. 

February  5,  1886. 

Schmidt,  William  Henry 

Profession. 

February  3,  1886. 

Schroeder,  Henry 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Scott,  James  A. 

Letter. 

September  28,  1887. 

Sempell,  Walter 

Letter. 

July  i,  1874. 

Severance,  Miss  Sarah  L. 

Letter. 

October  3,  1888. 

Shaw,  Alfred 

Letter. 

August  31,  1892. 

Shaw,  Miss  Belle 

Profession. 

October  31,  1879. 

Shaw,  Howard  Van  Doren 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Shaw,  Miss  Minna  M. 

Profession. 

October  3,  1888. 

Shaw,  Mrs.  Sarah  J. 

Profession. 

March  6,  1867. 

Shaw,  Theodore  A.,  Jr. 

Profession. 

March  24,  1886. 

Sheldon,  Mrs.  Grace  A. 

Profession. 

May  2,  1879. 

Sheldon,  Hervey,  Jr. 

Profession. 

May  2,  1879. 

Sheldon,  Miss  Mary  S.  , 

Profession. 

July  31,  1889. 

Sherman,  Mrs.  William  W. 

Letter. 

February  2,  1887. 

Simmons,  Mrs.  Mary  E. 

Profession. 

April  5,  1858. 

Singleton,  John 

Letter. 

March  2,  1877. 

Singleton,  Mrs.  John 

Letter. 

March  2,  1877. 

Skinner,  John  B. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Slattery,  Miss  Anna 

Letter. 

February  25,  1891. 

Small,  Mrs.  Jane 

Letter. 

May  4,  1877. 

Small,  R.  M. 

Letter. 

May  4,  1877. 

Smith,  Miss  Addie  E. 

Letter. 

February  28,  1879. 

Smith,  Miss  Edna  Valentine 

Profession. 

January  30,  1888. 

Smith,  Edward  J. 

Profession. 

September  27,  1886. 

Smith,  Francis  M. 

Profession. 

April  26,  1852. 

Smith,  Miss  Helen  A. 

Profession. 

September  27,  1886. 

Smith,  John  O. 

Letter. 

November  28,  1883. 

Smith,  Miss  Laura  M. 

Profession. 

November  25,  1890. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Mary  C. 

Letter. 

November  28,  1888. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Mary  T. 

Profession. 

July  20,  1874. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Sarah  E. 

Letter. 

November  28,  1883. 

Smith,  William  Wirt 

Profession. 

July  20,  1874. 

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SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


Names.  How  admitted. 

Smithson,  James  W.  Profession. 

Sommers,  Miss  Emma  E.  Profession. 

Southmayd,  Miss  Emily  A.  Letter. 

Southmayd,  Frederick  R.  Letter. 

Southmayd,  Miss  Kate  G.  Letter. 
Southmayd.  Mrs.  Matilda  McC.  Letter. 

Spaids,  Miss  Louisa  Letter. 

Speed,  Archie  C.  Profession. 

Speer,  John  T.  Profession. 

Starkweather,  Charles  H.  Profession. 

Steel,  Mrs.  Isabella  Letter. 

Steel,  Miss  Mary  F.  Profession. 

Steele,  Mrs.  Ella  P.  Letter. 

Steele,  Frederick  M.  Letter. 

Steele,  Mrs.  Gertrude  Profession. 

Steele,  William  K.  Profession. 

Stewart.  John  Profession. 

Stewart,  Margaret  Profession. 

Stitt,  Charles  F.  Letter. 

Stitt,  Mrs.  Emily  Profession. 

Stockton,  John  Dinsmore  Letter. 

Stone,  Sumner  W.  Letter. 

Stone,  Mrs.  Sumner  W.  Letter. 

Strickler,  Harvey  Letter. 

Sturtevant,  Mrs.  Mary  L.  Profession. 

Surghnor,  V.  H.  Letter. 

Swartz,  George  E.  Letter. 

Talmage,  Mrs.  Kittie  Letter. 

Taylor,  Miss  Anna  M.  Letter. 

Taylor,  Hobart  C.  Profession. 

Taylor,  Mrs.  Rose  Farwell  Letter. 

Telford,  Elmer  Ellsworth  Profession. 
Thacker,  Mrs.  Anna  Rommeiss  Letter. 

Thackwell,  William  C.  Profession. 

Theunis,  Miss  Flora  Profession. 

Theunis,  Miss  Theresa  Profession. 

Thiel,  Miss  Elizabeth  Profession. 

Thin,  David  Letter. 

Thomas,  Miss  Annie  O.  Profession. 

Thomas,  B.  W.  Letter. 

Thomas,  Mrs.  B.  W.  Letter. 

Thomas,  Miss  Florence  M.  Profession. 

Thomas,  Miss  Ida  W.  Profession. 

Thompson,  Mrs.  George  P.  Letter. 


When  admitted. 
November  28,  1883. 
October  3,  1888. 
December  7,  1890. 
December  7,  1890. 
December  7,  1890. 
December  7, 1890. 
January  30,  1889. 
October  31,  1888. 
April  25,  1858. 
October  26,  1859. 
March  30,  1864. 
January  24,  1883. 
February  4.  1885. 
February  4,  1885. 
September  2,  1874. 
July  12, 1877. 
November  3, 1876. 
May  2,  1879. 
March  5,  1880.  ' 
March  5,  1880. 
August  4,  1889. 
March  i,  1878. 
March  I,  1878. 
August  31,  1892. 
September  29,  1864 
June  8,  1887. 
February  2,  1887. 
March  23,  1887. 
January  29,  1890. 
April  2,  1890. 
April  2,  1890. 
December  4,  1887. 
March  21,  1888. 
January  3,  1883. 
May  2,  1866. 
May  2,  1866. 
June  8,  1887. 
November  28,  1883. 
January  12,  1877. 
November  3,  1876. 
November  3,  1876. 
February  3,  1886. 
January  12,  1877. 
December  31,  1890. 


NAMES  OF  MEMBERS. 


173 


Names.  How  admitted. 

Thompson,  Leveret  Profession. 

Thompson,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Letter. 

Thompson,  Miss  Susan  Profession. 

Thompson,  William  H.  Profession. 

Thornton,  W.  P.  Letter. 

Thorp.  John  Profession. 

Thorp,  Miss  Mary  Agnes  Profession. 

Thorp,  John  Norton  Profession. 

Thorp,  Mrs.  Wilhelmina  Profession. 

Tillman,  Miss  Augusta  Profession. 

Tillman.  Miss  Ellen  Matilda  Profession. 

Titus,  Joseph  F.  Letter. 

Titus,  Mrs.  Julia  S.  Letter. 

Titus,  Miss  Mary  S.  Profession. 

Titus,  Mrs.  Mary  V.  Letter. 

Todd,  N.  H.  Letter. 

Triller,  John  E.  Letter. 

Trumbull,  Herman  J.  Profession. 

Trumbull,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Letter. 

Turner,  Arthur  M.  Letter. 

Tuttle,  Emerson  B.  Profession. 

Tuttle,  Henry  N.  Profession. 

Tuttle,  Miss  Lucy  A.  Profession. 

Tyler,  Miss  Carrie  D.  Profession. 

Tyler,  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Letter. 

Ulrich,  Baitow  A.  Letter. 

Valentine,  Allister  J.  Letter. 

Valentine,  P.  Anderson  Letter. 

Valentine,  Mrs.  Joanna  G.  Letter. 

Van  Doren,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Letter. 

Van  Kirk,  Miss  Harriet  J.  Letter. 

Van  Smith,  Mrs.  Frances  I.  Profession. 

Van  Vliet,  Miss  Alice  Letter. 

Van  Vliet,  Miss  Marion  Letter. 

Van  Vliet,  Thornton  Letter. 
Van  Woert,  Mrs.  Fannie  M.       Letter. 

Vierling,  Louis  Profession. 

Vierling,  Robert  Profession. 

Vokuhl,  Miss  Augusta  L.  Profession. 

Vokuhl,  Miss  Frances  Profession. 

Vollmer,  Hannah  T.  Letter. 

Walker,  Charles  C.  Profession. 

Walker,  Mrs.  W.  B.  Profession. 

Wall,  Mrs.  Augusta  Profession. 


When  admitted. 
November  29,  1889. 
January  12,  1877. 
November  29,  1889. 
January  12,  1877. 
February  4,  1885. 
July  28,  1886. 
May  29,  1889. 
May  29,  1889. 
February  3,  1886. 
February  3,  1886. 
May  3,  1891. 
May  3,  1878. 
March  28,  1888. 
May  27,  1885. 
February  28,  1879. 
September  3,  1890. 
May  31,  1886. 
June  29,  1877. 
June  29,  1877. 
December  2, 1885. 
January  12,  1877. 
November  3,  1876. 
December  29,  1869. 
December  i,  1886. 
January  2,  1874. 
January  6,  1878. 
May  30,  1883. 
May  30,  1883. 
March  28,  1883. 
December  2,  1885. 
May  28,  1890. 
February  5,  1888. 
November  27,  1889. 
November  27, 1889. 
November  27,  1889. 
January  3,  1892. 
January  12,  1877. 
January  12,  1877. 
June  12,  1887. 
October  3,  1888. 
August  i,  1883. 
September  30,  1885. 
December  30,  1870. 
January  29,  1890. 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Wallace,  Andrew 

Letter. 

October  28,  1874. 

Wallace,  Mrs.  Bessie  P. 

Letter. 

April  30,  1875. 

Wallace,  Mrs.  Jane 

Letter. 

October  28,  1874. 

Wallace,  John  A. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Wallace,  Logan  D. 

Letter. 

April  30,  1875. 

Wallace,  Logan  Douglas 

Profession. 

April  21,  1886. 

Wallace,  Michael 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Walsh,  Mrs.  Catherine 

Profession. 

March  5,  1880. 

Walsh.  John 

Profession. 

January.  4,  1878. 

Walter,  Mrs.  J.  E. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Ward,  Miss  Amy 

Letter. 

November  25,  1890. 

Ward,  Charles  W. 

Letter. 

October  7,  1888. 

Ward,  Miss  Ellen 

Letter. 

November  25,  1890. 

Ward,  Miss  Frances  Hibbard 

Letter. 

January  3,  1892. 

Ward,  Miss  Lily  Emily 

Letter. 

January  3,  1892. 

Ward,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

December  3,  1890. 

Ward,  Samuel  D. 

Letter. 

December  3,  1890. 

Ware,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  A. 

Profession. 

June  2,  1889. 

Ware,  Lyman 

Letter. 

May  29,  1889. 

Warnock,  Miss  Rachel 

Profession. 

April  I,  1885. 

Washburn,  William  D. 

Letter. 

December  3,  1884. 

Watson,  Mrs.  Anna 

Letter. 

April  29,  1891. 

Watson,  Thomas 

Letter. 

March  2,  1877. 

Watson,  William  F. 

Profession. 

December  3,  1890. 

Webster,  Charles  R. 

Letter. 

April  2,  1884. 

Welfner,  Miss  Anna 

Profession. 

October  3,  1888. 

Wells,  Samuel  R. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1891. 

Wenzel,  Miss  Anna  M. 

Profession. 

February  2,  1887. 

Wenzel,  Mrs.  Fredericke  M. 

Profession. 

May  31,  1886. 

Werner,  Edward  C. 

Profession. 

March  24,  1886. 

Werner,  Miss  Elizabeth  Mary 

Profession. 

April  3,  1889. 

Wheeler,  Mrs.  Charles  C. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1862. 

Wheelock,  B.  J. 

Letter. 

December  2,  1885. 

Wheelock,  Mrs.  Rebecca  A. 

Letter. 

December  2,  1885. 

Whitehead,  William  M. 

Letter. 

November  i,  1868. 

Whiton,  Miss  Eliza  J. 

Profession. 

January  6,  1872. 

Whittal,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

Wilcox,  Henry  M. 

Profession. 

September  3,  1852. 

Wiley,  Mrs.  Emily  Windett 

Profession. 

October  i,  1884. 

Wilkie,  Mrs.  Jane 

Profession. 

June  26,  1878. 

Williams,  Mrs.  Carrie  C. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1870. 

Williams,  Mrs.  Hannah  M. 

Profession. 

June  29,  1864. 

Williams,  Miss  Laura 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Williams,  Miss  Mary  W. 

Profession. 

May  28,  1890. 

NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Williams,  Norman 

Profession. 

March  2,  1877. 

Williams,  Norman,  Jr. 

Profession. 

March  30,  1887. 

Willing,  Miss  Elizabeth  A. 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Willing,  Mrs.  Mary  Jane 

Letter. 

November  5,  1847. 

Wilson,  Mrs.  Anna  E. 

Letter. 

November  28,  1888. 

Wilson,  Charles  Gordon. 

Profession. 

May  30,  1888. 

Wilson,  Franklin  P. 

Letter. 

October  28,  1874. 

Windett,  Arthur  W. 

Letter. 

November  i,  1847. 

Wmdett,  Mrs.  Eliza  D. 

Profession. 

April  5,  1857. 

Windett,  Miss  Mary  R. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Windett,  Victor 

Profession. 

October  i,  1884. 

Wood,  Samuel  E. 

Profession. 

April  4,  1890. 

Wood,  Mrs.  S.  E. 

Letter. 

November  3,  1876. 

Wood,  Miss  Susan  Ella 

Profession. 

November  3,  1876. 

Worley,  Brice 

Letter. 

January  3,  1892. 

Worley,  Mrs.  Caroline  C. 

Profession. 

December  30,  1891. 

Wright,  Miss  Isabella 

Profession. 

December  30,  1874. 

Wright,  Mrs.  Jennie  Van  Doren 

Letter. 

November  28,  1888. 

Wylie,  Miss  Isabella  A. 

Letter. 

October  I,  1884. 

Zabel,  Joseph 

Letter. 

May  4,  1877. 

Zabel,  Mrs.  Martha 

Letter. 

May  4,  1877. 

NAMES    OF     MEMBERS. 

DISMISSED,  DECEASED  OR  ORDAINED  TO  THE  MINISTRY. 


Names. 

Abbott,  Charles  8. 
Abbott,  Mrs.  Julia  B. 
Abell,  Mrs.  Martha  J. 
Abell,  Sidney 
Adams,  Mrs.  Francis  C.  B. 
Adams,  Miss  Frances  J. 
Adams,  G.  W. 
Adams,  Gustavus  P. 
Adams,  Miss  Hattie 
Adams,  James 
Adams,  Mrs.  James 
Adams,  Mrs.  Jane  A. 
Adams,  Mrs.  Joanna 
Adams,  Miss  Julia 
Adams,  Mrs.  L.  J. 
Adams,  Mrs.  M.  F. 
Adams,  Mrs.  Mary  L. 
Adams,  W.  W. 
Aiken,  E.  H. 
Aiken,  Mrs.  E.  H. 
Aiken,  James  E. 
Aiken,  Mrs.  J.  E. 
Aitchison,  Mrs.  Jessie 
Aitchison,  Robert 
Alden,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  P. 
Aldrich,  Mrs.  Mae 
Alexander,  Mrs.  Frances 
Alexander,  Mrs.  Lizzie  F. 
Alfred,  Albro 
Alfred,  Mrs.  Jane 
Allbeck,  Louisa 
Allen,  Edgar  W. 
Allen,  Mrs.  M.  F. 


How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Letter. 

April  27,  1859. 

Deceased. 

Letter. 

April  27,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Profession. 

May  4,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

>.    Letter. 

August  24,  1853. 

Deceased. 

Profession. 

June  29,  1864. 

Deceased. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Profession. 

September  5,  1856. 

Deceased. 

Profession. 

September  14,  1870. 

Deceased. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1853. 

Deceased. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Letter. 

April  27,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1853. 

Deceased. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1853. 

Deceased. 

Letter. 

September  5,  1856. 

Deceased. 

Profession. 

March  4,  1866. 

Deceased. 

Letter. 

February  28,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Profession. 

July  3,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

Letter. 

July  3,  1846. 

Deceased. 

Letter. 

July  3,  1846. 

Deceased. 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Profession. 

November  5,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Profession. 

December  24,  1873. 

Dismissed. 

Profession. 

February  6,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Letter. 

July  2,  1873. 

Dismissed. 

Letter. 

July  i,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Letter. 

July  H,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Letter. 

July  11,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Profession. 

October  31,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Letter. 

March  29,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Letter. 

March  29,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

176 


NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


I77 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Alverson,  Mrs.  Emeline 

Letter. 

September  4,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Andrews,  Mrs.  Eliza 

Profession. 

February  29,  1856. 

Deceased. 

Anthony,  Elliott 

Letter. 

April  27,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Arbuckle,  Mrs.  D.  R. 

Letter. 

March  4,  1866. 

Deceased. 

Armour,  Mrs.  Amelia 

Profession. 

May  8,  1863. 

Deceased. 

Armour,  Mrs.  Anna  L. 

Letter. 

March  31,  1886. 

Deceased. 

Armour,  George 

Letter. 

June  29,  1864. 

Deceased. 

Armour,  Geo.  A. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1877. 

* 

Armour,  Harriet  C.  Foote. 

Profession. 

April  30,  1875. 

* 

Armour,  William 

Profession. 

July  7,  1876. 

Deceased. 

Arnold,  Philip 

Letter. 

September  26,  1888. 

Dismissed. 

Atkin,  Mrs.  Catherine  Ann 

Letter. 

July  2,  1847. 

Deceased. 

Atkin,  John  H. 

Letter. 

July  2,  1847. 

Deceased. 

Atwater,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  E 

Profession. 

July  7,  1876. 

Deceased. 

Austin,  Mrs.  Kate  P. 

Letter. 

July  i,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Austin,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

March  i,  1847. 

Deceased. 

Averell,  Bradford  Y. 

Letter. 

December  7,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Averell,  Miss  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

July  6,  1844. 

Deceased. 

Averell,  Mrs.  Eunice 

Letter. 

July  6,  1844. 

Deceased. 

Averell,  James 

Letter. 

July  6,  1844. 

Deceased. 

Avery,  Oscar  F. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1864. 

Deceased. 

Avery,  Miss  M.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

December  2,  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Aylin,  Mrs.  Annie  C. 

Letter. 

March  29,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Aylin,  Charles  -E. 

Letter. 

July  28,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Ayres,  Mrs.  Ann 

Letter. 

November  4,  1864. 

Deceased. 

Babcock,  Mark  I. 

Letter. 

March  31,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Bailey,  Mrs.  Frances  S. 

Letter. 

November  3,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Bailey,  Wesley  G. 

Profession. 

October  14,  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Baird,  Mrs.  Anna 

Letter. 

May  5,  1861. 

Dismissed. 

Baird,  William 

Profession. 

March  i,  1865. 

Deceased. 

Baker,  Alfred  B. 

Profession. 

February  24,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Baker,  Mrs.  Charlotte  B. 

Letter. 

September  I,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Baker,  Elihu 

Letter. 

September  i,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Baker,  Lewis  C. 

Profession. 

July  2,  1847. 

Dismissed. 

Bakewell,  William 

Profession. 

May  i,  1861. 

•Dismissed. 

Ballantyne,  James  O. 

Letter. 

July  3,  1872. 

Dismissed. 

Ballantyne,  Miss  Agnes  W. 

Profession. 

August  6,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Ballantyne,  Mrs.  J.  O. 

Letter. 

July  3,  1872. 

Dismissed. 

Ballard,  Joshua  A. 

Profession. 

April  26,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Ballard,  Mrs.  E.  A. 

Letter. 

March  I,  1861. 

Deceased. 

Barker,  Mrs.  F.  W. 

Profession. 

February  25,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Barker,  Mrs.  Josephine 

Letter. 

February  6,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

*  Joined  another  Communion. 


I78 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Barker,  William  A. 

Letter. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Barnard,  Miss  Helen 

Letter. 

July  28,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Barnard,  Miss  Louisa 

Letter. 

July  28,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Barnard,  Mrs.  Margaret  E. 

Letter. 

July  28,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Barnard,  Moses  R. 

Letter. 

July  28,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Barnard,  Miss  Sarah  L.        „ 

Letter. 

July  28,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Barnes,  Miss  Harriet 

Profession. 

December  31,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Barnes,  A.  Henry 

Letter. 

October  30,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Barrett,  A.  C. 

Letter. 

September  4,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Barrett,  Mrs.  Jane 

Letter. 

September  6,  1861. 

Dismissed. 

Barrett,  Mrs.  Julia 

Letter. 

September  4,  1869. 

Dismissed. 

Barry,  Mrs.  William  Taylor 

Letter. 

May  2,  1888. 

Dismissed. 

Barton,  John 

Letter. 

September  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Baskin,  O.  L. 

Letter. 

September  3,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Baskin,  Mrs.  O.  L. 

Profession. 

December  29,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Bass,  Miss  Fannie  C. 

Letter. 

June  6,  1878. 

Deceased. 

Bates,  Mrs.  Harriet  E. 

Profession. 

March  6,  1847. 

Dismissed. 

Battin,  Andrew  B. 

Letter. 

September  i,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Beach,  Mrs.  Harriet  E. 

Letter. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Beach,  Lewis 

Letter. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Beach,  Woolsey  E. 

Profession. 

May  31,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Beale,  Mrs.  Amanda 

Letter. 

May  2,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

Beardsley,  Mrs.  C.  W. 

Profession. 

April  I,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Beaumont,  Mrs.  Esther 

Letter. 

August  6,  1842. 

Dismissed. 

Beck,  Theodore  R. 

Profession. 

April  26,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Beckwith,  Mrs.  Hannah 

Letter. 

September  18,  1871. 

Deceased. 

Beebe,  G.  D. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Beebe,  J.  E. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Beebe,  Mrs.  Lucie  C. 

Letter. 

March  I,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Beebe,  Mary  B. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Begg,  Miss  Jennie 

Letter. 

September  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Bell,  Miss  Janette 

Profession. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Bell,  Miss  Margaret 

Letter. 

December  29,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Benson,  Mrs.  Sabrina  H. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Bent,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

December  31,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Bentley,  Mrs.  Cyrus 

Profession. 

December  29,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Benton,  Mrs.  G.  C. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1865. 

Deceased. 

Bennett,  Douglas 

Profession. 

April  26,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Bennett,  Mrs.  Jane  A. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Bennett,  Lewis  M. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Berry,  Mrs.  Frances  E. 

Profession. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Biddle,  William  F. 

Profession. 

June  7,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Bigford,  J.  Marvin 

Profession. 

March  2,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Biggs,  Mrs.  Isabella  D. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


I79 


Names.  How  admitted. 

Bissell,  Arthur  H.  Letter. 

Blakeslee,  Miss  Ella  L.  Letter. 

Blackburn,  Mrs.  Matilda  Letter. 

Blake,  Mrs.  E.  A.  Letter. 

Blake,  Henry  Profession. 

Blanchard,  J.  G.  Letter. 

Blaney,  Mrs.  Clarissa  Profession. 

Blatchford,  Miss  Alice  Profession. 
Blatchford,  Mrs.  Frances  W.  Letter. 

Blatchford,  Mrs.  Mary  Profession. 

Bliss,  Mrs.  Mary  Letter. 

Bliss,  Samuel  Letter. 

Bliss,  Sylvester  S.  Letter. 

Blount,  J.  Letter. 

Boomer,  Mrs.  Anna  D.  Letter. 

Boomer,  William  B.  Profession. 

Bond,  Mrs.  Charlotte  M.  Letter. 

Bonner,  Charles  Letter. 

Bonner,  Mrs.  May  Letter. 

Bouton,  Mrs.  Ellen  Letter. 

Bouton,  Nathaniel  S.  Letter. 

Bowen,  Edgar  J.  Letter. 

Bowen,  Mrs.  Mary  H.  Letter. 

Boyd,  Edward  Letter. 

Boyce,  Mrs.  Helen  M.  Letter. 

Boyce,  Josephine  Profession. 

Boyce,  Margaret  Profession. 

Bradford,  William  J.  Letter. 

Bradley,  Mrs.  B.  O.  Letter. 

Brainard,  Ezra  L.  Letter. 

Brand,  William  H.  Letter. 
Breakey,  Miss  Charlotte  C.   Profession. 

Breakey,  Mrs.  Marcia  Letter. 

Breed,  Mrs.  Amanda  Letter. 
Bridgeman,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.    Letter. 

Bridgeman,  William  H.  Profession. 

Briggs,  Miss  Clarinda  Letter. 

Briggs,  Mrs.  Sarah  Wray  Letter. 

Brock,  Alexander  Profession. 

Brock,  Miss  Isabella  Profession. 

Brooks,  Mrs.  Delia  A.  Letter. 

Brooks,  Mrs.  Fannie  D.  Letter. 

Brooks,  Mrs.  Florence  E.  Letter. 

Brooks,  Frank  L.  Letter. 


When  admitted.  Remarks. 

December  30,  1868.  Dismissed. 

May  30,  1883.  Deceased. 

September  28,  1887.  Dismissed. 

February  28,  1851.  Dismissed. 

April  30,  1852.  Dismissed. 

September  29,  1864.  Dismissed. 

February  28,  1845.  Dismissed. 

October  29,  1862.  Dismissed. 

March  2,  1860.  Dismissed. 

December  23, 1850.  Dismissed. 

April  4,  1857.  Dismissed. 

October  25,  1852.  Dismissed. 

May  2,  1851.  Dismissed. 

December  29,  1851.  Dismissed. 

February  25,  1868.  Deceased. 
March  5,  1875.       Ord»inedto  Ministry. 

March  3,  1876.  Dismissed. 

April  3,  1889.  Dismissed. 

April  3,  1889.  Dismissed. 

September  4,  1859.  Dismissed. 

September  4,  1859.  Dismissed. 

November  5,  1865.  Dismissed. 

November  5,  1865.  Dismissed. 

May  2,  1846.  Dismissed. 

February  23,  1849.  Dismissed. 

March  2,  1877.  Dismissed. 

March  2,  1877.  Dismissed. 

December  28,  1887.  Dismissed. 

January  2,  1864.  Dismissed. 

January  4,  1 86 1.  Dismissed. 

July  i,  1856.  Dismissed. 

January  17,  1886.  Dismissed. 

May  3,  1865.  Dismissed. 

January  12,  1877.  Dismissed. 

April  26,  1858.  Dismissed. 

April  23,  1858.  Dismissed. 

February  28,  1879.  Deceased. 

February  28,  1879.  Deceased. 

January  6,  1878.  Deceased. 

March  i,  1878.  Deceased. 

June  i,  1870.  Deceased. 

November  22,  1882.  Dismissed. 

October  15,  1884.  Dismissed. 

November  22,  1882.  Dismissed. 


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SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted.               Remarks. 

Brooks,  Jonathan  W. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1870.               Deceased. 

Brooks,  Jonathan  W.,  Jr. 

Letter. 

February  6,  1870.        Dismissed. 

Brooks,  Mrs.  Mary  L. 

Profession. 

September  15,  1876.  Dismissed. 

Brooks,  William  C. 

Letter. 

October  15,  1884.        Dismissed. 

Bross,  John  A. 

Letter. 

February  26,  1849.       Dismissed. 

Bross,  William 

Letter. 

October  24,  1848.        Deceased. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Abby  L. 

Letter. 

April  15,  1847.             Dismissed. 

Brown,  Adalbert  E. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1877.            Dismissed. 

Brown,  Miss  Adele  C. 

Letter. 

July  3,  1872.                Dismissed. 

Brown,  Miss  Annie  M. 

Letter. 

April  22,  1870.             Dismissed. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Cornelia  C. 

Letter. 

February  28,  1851.      Deceased. 

Brown,  Miss  Ella  M. 

Letter. 

June  24,  1858.              Deceased. 

Brown,  George  A. 

Letter. 

December  22,  1865.    Dismissed. 

Brown,  Mrs.  George  A. 

Letter. 

March  4,  1866.             Dismissed. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Harriet  C. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842.               Deceased. 

Brown,  Miss  Harriet  S. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877.        Dismissed. 

Brown,  Mrs.  J.  J. 

Letter. 

April  22,  1870.             Dismissed. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Jemima 

Letter. 

March  23,  1864.           Dismissed. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Margaret 

Letter. 

July  2,  1862.                Dismissed. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Orlandie  H. 

Letter. 

July  3,  1872.                Dismissed. 

Brown,  Theodore  F. 

Profession. 

April  26,  1852.              Dismissed. 

Brown,  William  H. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842.               Deceased. 

Brownell,  Mrs.  P.  W. 

Letter. 

September  12,  1879.   Dismissed. 

Bruce,  Mrs.  William 

Letter. 

October  28,  1857.        Dismissed. 

Brust,  Edward 

Letter. 

December  30,  1868.   Deceased. 

Bruyn,  Mrs.  Jane 

Letter. 

October  3,  1883.          Deceased. 

Buchanan,  Milford  D. 

Letter. 

November  3,  1858.     Dismissed. 

Buck,  Roswell  D. 

Letter. 

October  21,  1857.        Dismissed. 

Buckingham,  John 

Letter. 

February  6,  1870.       Dismissed. 

Buell,  Mrs.  Anna  M. 

Profession. 

March  i,  1858.            Deceased. 

Bullen,  Mrs.  William  H. 

Letter. 

May  4,  1866.                Dismissed. 

Burbank,  William  B. 

Profession. 

April  26,  1847.            Dismissed. 

Burch,  Isaac  H. 

Profession. 

August  7,  1843.           Deceased. 

Burlingame,  Rufus  P. 

Letter. 

June  25,  1852.             Dismissed. 

Burlingame,  Mrs.  Rufus  P 

.   Letter. 

June  25,  1852.              Dismissed. 

Burnap,  Mrs.  Ruth 

Profession. 

April  30,  1852.             Dismissed. 

Burns,  Miss  Mary 

Letter. 

August  30.  1858.         Dismissed. 

Burt,  Mrs.  Anne  Jenette 

Letter. 

June  27,  1853.             Deceased. 

Burton,  Benjamin 

Profession. 

March  3,  1858.             Dismissed. 

Burton,  Mrs.  Catherine 

Letter. 

December  27,  1843.   Deceased. 

Burton,  John 

Profession. 

July  3,  1861.                Dismissed. 

Burton,  Lewis  S. 

Letter. 

June  27,  1855.              Dismissed. 

Burton,  Mrs.  Lucv  A. 

Profession. 

October  30,  1861.        Dismissed. 

Burton,  Samuel 

Letter. 

November  3,  1854.    Dismissed. 

NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


181 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Burton,  Thomas 

Profession. 

March  3,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Burrell,  Mrs.  Emily  A. 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Burrell,  Isaac 

Dismissed. 

Burritt,  Mrs.  Ann  W. 

Letter. 

January  4,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Burritt,  Miss  Anna  E. 

Letter. 

January  4,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Burritt,  Miss  Julia  W. 

Letter. 

January  4,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Bury,  Mrs.  Caroline  J. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Butler,  Mrs.  Ella 

Letter. 

January  4,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Butler,  B.  Franklin 

Profession. 

July  2,  1847. 

Dismissed. 

Butler,  Harvey  H. 

Letter. 

January  4,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Butler,  Mrs.  Maria  V. 

Letter. 

December,  31,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Butler,  Walter 

Letter. 

December  31,  1844. 

Deceased. 

Butts,  Miss  Annie  E. 

Letter. 

January  2,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Cameron,  John  McRae 

Profession. 

April  29,  1885. 

* 

Cameron,  Mrs.  Katherine  M, 

Profession. 

October  12,  1884. 

Deceased. 

Campbell,  Ambrose 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Deceased. 

Campbell,  Mrs.  James 

Letter. 

April  8,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Carter,  Asher 

Letter. 

January  4,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Carter,  Mrs.  Catherine  R. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Carter,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

January  4,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Carter,  Francis  H. 

Profession. 

June  24,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Carter,  Frederick  B. 

Profession. 

March  20,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Carter,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Carter,  Mrs.  Phoebe 

Profession. 

June  21,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Case,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  V. 

Profession. 

July  4,  1851. 

Dismissed, 

Case,  John  R. 

Letter. 

July  4,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Cass,  Miss  Agnes 

Profession. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Cass,  Dr.  A.  L. 

Profession. 

May  2,  1879. 

Deceased. 

Cass,  Mrs.  A.  L. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1879. 

Deceased. 

Caton,  Mrs.  Laura  A. 

Letter. 

September  16,  1890. 

Deceased. 

Cave,  Henry 

Profession. 

February  24,  1844. 

Deceased. 

Chambers,  B.  B. 

Letter. 

March  6,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Chambers,  Mrs.  Mary  E. 

Letter. 

March  6,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Chamberlain,  Miss  Eliza  P. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Chamberlain,  Miss  Etta  M. 

Letter. 

February  28,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Chamberlain,  Miss  Nellie 

Letter. 

February  28,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Chapin,  Mrs.  Harriet  L. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Chapin,  Miss  Ida  L. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Chapin,  Mrs.  Mary  F. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Chapin,  Mrs.  Susan 

Letter. 

April  8,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Chapman,  Frederick  A. 

Profession. 

April  19,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Chard,  Mrs.  Ada  P. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

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SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Chase,  George  L. 

Letter. 

May  6,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Chase,  Mrs.  George  L. 

Letter. 

May  6,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Chase,  Harriet  A. 

Profession. 

March  4,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Childs,  Miss  Beulah 

Profession. 

December  28,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Childs,  Mrs.  Emma  L. 

Profession. 

April  30,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Childs,  Samuel  D. 

Profession. 

March  3,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Chipman,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  W, 

,  Profession. 

August  28,  1867. 

Dismissed. 

Choate,  Seth  A. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Cissel,  Robert  B. 

Letter. 

January  30,  1884. 

Dismissed. 

Clark,  August  P. 

Letter. 

December  20,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Clark,  Miss  Bessie  May 

Profession. 

June  12,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Clark,  Miss  Catherine 

Letter. 

June  25,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Clark,  Mrs.  Catherine 

Letter. 

June  25,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Clark,  Mrs.  Evelina  G. 

Letter. 

July  3,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Clark,  Mrs.  Frances  G. 

Letter. 

December  20,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Clark,  John 

Letter. 

January  4,  1878. 

Deceased. 

Clark,  Mrs.  Jonas  C. 

Letter. 

January  3.  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Clark,  Miss  Margaret  F. 

Profession. 

June  28,  1865. 

Deceased. 

Clark,  Miss  Mary 

Profession. 

May  2,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Clark,  Miss  Mary  E. 

Profession. 

August  23,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Clark,  Mrs.  Mary  E. 

Profession. 

October  28,  1857. 

Deceased. 

Clark,  Miss  Mary  G. 

Profession. 

April  30,  1855. 

Deceased. 

Clark,  Rufus 

Letter. 

October  3,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Clark,  Mrs.  Rufus 

Letter. 

October  3,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Clark,  Samuel  D. 

Letter. 

June  24,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Clark,  Mrs.  S.  D. 

Letter. 

June  24,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Clark,  Sumner 

Letter. 

July  i,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Clark,  T.  R. 

Letter. 

June  25,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Clarke,  George  C. 

Letter. 

October  21,  1863. 

Deceased. 

Clarkson,  Mrs.  Anna  S. 

Profession. 

April  19,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Cleghorn,  Mrs.  Artemesia 

Letter. 

January  5,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Cleghorn,  Mrs.  Caroline 

Letter. 

January  i,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Cleghorn,  Edward 

Letter. 

January  i,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Cleghorn,  Miss  Harriet 

Letter. 

January  5,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Cleghorn,  John  W. 

Letter. 

January  5,  1849. 

Deceased. 

Cleghorn,  Mrs.  Mary  J. 

Profession. 

April  26,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Clemow,  Mrs.  Julia 

Letter. 

May  4,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Cobb,  Mrs.  Maria 

Profession. 

December  30,  1870. 

Deceased. 

Coburn,  Mrs.  John 

Letter. 

January  5,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Coe,  Mrs.  Walton  W. 

Profession. 

April  2,  1884. 

Dismissed. 

Cole,  F.  C. 

Letter. 

April  4,  1890. 

Dismissed. 

Coleman,  Mrs.  Ida  Ray 

Profession. 

January  u,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Coleman,  Mrs.  Lenora  B. 

Profession. 

December  30,  1870. 

Deceased. 

Colfax,  Eben 

Letter. 

May  3,  1861. 

Deceased. 

NAMES   OF  MEMBERS. 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Colfax,  Mrs.  Helen 

Letter. 

May  3,  1861. 

Dismissed. 

Collins,  Mrs.  Mary  B. 

Letter. 

August  6,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Colton,  A.  M.  F. 

Letter. 

July,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Colton,  Mrs.  Caroline 

Letter. 

May  4,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Colton,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

April  30,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Combs,  George  E.  R. 

'Profession. 

March  30,  1888. 

Dismissed. 

Combs,  Pressly  Stuart 

Letter. 

May  29,  1889. 

Dismissed. 

Connelly,  John 

Profession. 

November  27,  1889. 

Dismissed. 

Cook,  Mrs.  Amanda  S. 

Letter. 

October  31,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Cook,  Mrs.  J.  L. 

Dismissed. 

Cook,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  W. 

Letter. 

August  28,  1867. 

Dismissed. 

Cook,  Nathan  B. 

Letter. 

December  31,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Cooke,  David  B. 

Profession. 

April  19,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Cooke,  Mrs.  Mary  B. 

Profession. 

March  I,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Georgette 

Letter. 

March  5,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

Cooley,  Mrs.  Sarah  A. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Cornell,  Paul 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Couch,  Ira  H. 

Letter. 

August  6,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Cowan,  Dr.  J. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Cowan,  Mrs.  Mary  K. 

Profession. 

April  22,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Cowles,  Alfred  L. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Cowles,  Mrs.  Charlotte 

Letter. 

August  31,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Cowles,  Miss  Louisa  J. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1844. 

Deceased. 

Crang,  Richard  R. 

Letter. 

May  3,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Crapo,  Mrs.  Phoebe 

Letter. 

December  28,  1870. 

Deceased. 

Crerar,  John 

Letter. 

February  28,  1866. 

Deceased. 

Cronkite,  Miss  Catherine  E. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Crook,  Miss  Abby  P. 

Letter. 

March  9,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Cross,  Mrs.  Julia 

Profession. 

April  22,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Crumbaugh,  Miss  Ella  B. 

Profession. 

February  28,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Crumbaugh,  Dr.  F. 

Letter. 

January  7,  1866. 

Deceased. 

Culver,  Mrs.  Arta  L. 

Letter. 

January  29,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Culver,  Mrs.  S.  H. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Cummings,  Miss  Clara  D. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Dismissed'. 

Cummings,  Miss  Ella  L. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Cummings,  Miss  Harriet  E. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Cunningham,  Miss  Ida 

Letter. 

February^  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Curtis,  Miss  Abby  Ann 

Letter. 

May  4,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  James 

Letter. 

May  4,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Mary  Isabel 

Letter. 

January  4,  1878. 

Deceased. 

Cuthbert,  Mrs.  Adelia 

Profession. 

March  i,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Darke,  John  R. 

Profession. 

August  29,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Darling,  George 

Letter. 

March  5,  1875. 

Deceased. 

Darling,  Mrs.  Janet 

Letter. 

March  5,  1875. 

Deceased. 

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SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names.                       How  admicted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Darr,  Mrs.  Kate  P. 

Letter. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Davis,  Mrs.  Ellen  M. 

Letter. 

June  24,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Davisson,  Mrs.  Jennie  E. 

Profession. 

May  4,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Davisson,  Mrs.  Julia  Ann 

Letter. 

March  2,  1844. 

Deceased. 

Davisson,  Miss  Laura  K. 

Profession. 

May  4,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Davisson,  Miss  Martha  E. 

Letter. 

May  4,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Dean,  Miss  Dinah 

Letter. 

February  25,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Denison,  Mrs.  Carrie  H. 

Letter, 

March  5,  1862. 

Dismissed. 

Denison,  Ephraim  H. 

Letter. 

March  5,  1862. 

Dismissed. 

Denniston,  Dr.  William  S. 

Profession. 

April  26,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Densmore,  Eleazor  W. 

Profession. 

January  2,  1877. 

Deceased. 

De  Golyer,  G.  J. 

Letter. 

May  I,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

De  Golyer,  Minnie  H. 

Letter. 

May  i,  1864. 

Dismissed, 

De  Teresa,  Mrs.  Anna  N. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

* 

Dick,  David  B. 

Letter. 

February  28,  1872. 

Dismissed. 

Dickinson,  Emma  L. 

Profession. 

January  3,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Dickinson,  Mrs.  H.  W. 

Letter. 

March  7,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Dickinson,  Miss  Louise 

Profession. 

May  I,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Dillingham,  Miss  Clara  E. 

Letter. 

October  28,  1891. 

Dismissed. 

Doane,  Mrs.  Mary 

Profession. 

January  2,  1867. 

Dismissed. 

Doane,  Thomas  H. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

Dodd,  Richard  W. 

Letter. 

October  24,  1848, 

Dismissed. 

Dodd,  Mrs.  Sarah  C. 

Profession. 

October  24,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Dodds,  James  A. 

Letter. 

October  22,  1890. 

Ordained  to  Ministry 

Dodge,  David 

Letter. 

May  i,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Dodge,  Mrs.  Sallie  E. 

Letter. 

July  7,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Doggett,  Miss  Frances  M. 

Letter. 

December  i,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Dole,  George  W. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Dismissed. 

Doolittle,  Mrs.  Evelina 

Letter. 

March  3,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Doolittle,  Mrs.  Louisa  E. 

Letter. 

October  3,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Dorman,  Mrs.  Margaret 

Letter. 

May  5,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Dorman,  O.  M. 

Letter. 

May  5,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Dorr,  Maxwell  B. 

Profession. 

April  23,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Dudley,  Henry  W. 

Profession. 

May  2,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Dunn,  Mrs.  Annie  W. 

Letter. 

March  29,  1886. 

Deceased. 

Durrie,  Archibald 

Letter. 

January  24,  1883. 

Dismissed. 

Dutch,  Mrs.  Susan  F. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Dutcher,  Mrs.  Susan 

Letter. 

December  22,  i86c 

).   Deceased. 

Dwight,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  T. 

Profession. 

May  2,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Dyk,  William 

Letter. 

November  2,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Dyk,  Mrs.  William 

Letter. 

November  2,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Eastman,  Mrs.  Martha 

Letter. 

February  28,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

*  Joined  another  Communion. 


NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Eddy,  A.  D. 

Profession. 

March  4,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Eddy,  Miss  Alice  A. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Eddy,  Miss  Beulah 

Letter. 

October  28,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Eddy,  Mrs.  C.  H. 

Letter. 

May  i,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Edwards,  Mrs.  Caroline 

Letter. 

December  27,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Edwards,  Frederick 

Profession. 

July  5,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Edwards,  Richard 

Letter. 

Dismissed. 

Edwards,  Mrs.  Susan  H. 

Profession. 

March  i,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Elmendorf,  Frederick  F. 

Letter. 

March  5,  1875. 

Deceased. 

Elmore,  Mrs.  M.  S. 

Letter. 

December  31,  1844. 

Deceased. 

Ely,  Edward 

Letter. 

December  7,  1856. 

Deceased. 

Ely,  Mrs.  Ellen 

Letter. 

September  7,  1871. 

Deceased. 

Ely,  Mrs.  Eloise 

Letter. 

December  31,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Ely,  Enoch  D. 

Letter. 

January  2,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Ely,  Mrs.  Esther  A. 

Letter. 

December  7,  1854. 

Deceased. 

Ely,  George  M. 

Letter. 

January  4,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Ely,  Mrs.  Hettie  L. 

Letter. 

December  28,  1853. 

Deceased. 

Ely,  Horace 

Letter. 

January  3,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Ely,  Mrs.  Julia 

Letter. 

January  2,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

Ely,  Mrs.  Louisa  M. 

Letter. 

September  26,  1888. 

Deceased. 

Ely,  Miss  Marion  A. 

Profession. 

January  2,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

Ely,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

March  2,  1870. 

Deceased. 

Ely,  Mrs.  Mary  H. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1862. 

Dismissed. 

Ely,  Oliver  C. 

Letter. 

January  2,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

Ely,  Richard 

Letter. 

January  3,  1855. 

Deceased. 

Ely,  Mrs.  Sarah  H. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Ely,  Z.  S. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Engs,  Mrs.  E. 

Letter. 

March  30,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Esdaile,  Robert  M. 

Letter. 

April  29,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Ewing,  Mrs.  Annie 

Profession. 

September  15,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Fargo,  Mrs.  Mary  Kent 

Letter. 

May  30,  1884. 

Deceased. 

Farlin,  Mrs.  Mary  T. 

Profession. 

June  21,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Farnham,  Mrs.  Anna  S. 

Profession. 

June  7,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Farnham,  George  B. 

Profession. 

November  16,  1861. 

Dismissed. 

Farrington,  George  W. 

Letter. 

November  9,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Farrington,  Mrs.  Martha 

A.  Letter. 

November  9,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Farrington,  S.  P. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Farwell,  Mrs.  Emorette 

Letter. 

January  3,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Farwell,  Mrs.  Harriet 

Letter. 

October  28,  1868. 

Deceased. 

Farwell,  John  K. 

Letter. 

October  28,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Farwell,  Mrs.  J.  K. 

Letter. 

January  2,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Farwell,  Mrs.  Mary  E. 

Letter. 

September  4,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Farwell,  Mrs.  Sallie  C. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Farwell,  William  W. 

Letter. 

October  24,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

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Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Fauntleroy,  Mrs.  Isabella 

Letter. 

February  28,  1879. 

Deceased. 

Fauntleroy,  Mrs.  Mary  C. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Fauntleroy,  T.  Smythe 

Letter. 

October  30,  1872. 

Dismissed. 

Ferguson,  Miss  Emily 

Letter. 

September  22,  1845. 

Deceased. 

Ferry,  Miss  Helen  A. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Ferry,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Field,  Mrs.  Sarah 

Letter. 

August  6,  1842. 

Dismissed. 

Fishburn,  T.  T. 

Profession. 

July  4,  1869. 

Dismissed. 

Flanders,  Mrs.  Caroline  M 

.    Profession. 

January  4,  1861. 

Dismissed. 

Fleming,  Miss  Eliza 

Letter. 

June  30,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Fletcher,  Mrs.  A.  R. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Folsom,  Ezekiel 

Profession. 

March  i,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Folsom,  Mrs.  E. 

Letter. 

March  5,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Forrest,  Mrs.  Anna 

Letter. 

December  30,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Forrest,  Samuel 

Letter. 

December  30,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Forsythe,  Frank  W. 

Letter. 

August  13,  1884. 

Dismissed.. 

Forsythe,  Miss  Jennie 

Profession. 

December  30,  1874. 

Deceased. 

Forsythe,  John 

Letter. 

July  I,  1874. 

Deceased. 

Forsythe,  Mrs.  John 

Letter. 

July  I,  1874. 

Deceased. 

Forsyth,  Mrs.  Kate 

Letter. 

September  15,  1876. 

Deceased.. 

Forsyth,  Miss  Minnie  L. 

Profession. 

August  4,  1891. 

Deceased. 

Forsyth,  Robert 

Letter. 

September  15,  1876. 

Deceased. 

Fowler,  Mrs.  Charlotte 

Profession. 

September  5,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Fowler,  Roger 

Letter. 

February  25,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Fowler,  Mrs.  Roger 

Letter. 

February  25,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Fowler,  Warren  R. 

Profession. 

September  5,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Frain,  Arthur  S. 

Profession. 

June  29,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Franks,  Miss  Ida  B. 

Profession. 

February  3,   1886. 

Deceased. 

Frazier,  H.  N. 

Letter. 

February  28,  1873. 

Dismissed. 

Freeman,  Mrs.  Mary  H. 

Profession. 

June  28,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Frink,  Mrs.  Cornelia  E. 

Letter. 

April  30,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Frink,  Henry 

Letter. 

April  30,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Frost,  George  H. 

Letter. 

May  3,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Frost,  Mrs.  Louisa 

Profession. 

March  i,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Fry,  Mrs.  Margaret 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Fry,  William  E. 

Profession. 

February  28,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Fullerton,  Mrs.  A.  N. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Gage,  Mrs.  Sarah  Merrill 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Gaines,  Clement  C. 

Letter. 

November  28,  1883. 

Dismissed. 

Gamble,  Mrs.  Ella 

Letter. 

November  27,  1889. 

Dismissed. 

Gardner,  James  B. 

Profession. 

October  25,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Gates,  C.  H. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Gates,  Mrs.  Harriet  A. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Gates,  Miss  Helen  S. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1876. 

Dismissed.. 

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Names. 

How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Gaw,  Mrs.  Janet  C. 

Letter. 

November^,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Gaymond,  Miss  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

May  4,  1877. 

Deceased. 

Gaylord,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  C 

.    Letter. 

December  i,  1889. 

Dismissed. 

Geddes,  Mrs.  Janet  M. 

Letter. 

July  2,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Geer,  Mrs.  Julia  S. 

Letter. 

September  4,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

Geer,  Nathan  C. 

Letter. 

September  4,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

Getty,  Miss  Mary  M. 

Letter. 

May  3,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Gibbs,  Mrs.  Bertha  L. 

Letter. 

February  28,  1845. 

Deceased. 

Gibbs,  Charles  C. 

Profession. 

April  15,  1864. 

Deceased. 

Gibbs,  Mrs.  George  A. 

Letter. 

December  27,  1847. 

Dismissed. 

Gibson,  Miss  Eliza  Helen 

Lettef. 

July  i,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Gibson,  Mrs.  Lucy 

Letter. 

July  i,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Gibson,  Robert 

Letter. 

May  4,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Giles,  Mrs.  Mary  R. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Gillet,  Stephen  J. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Gleason,  Mrs.  M.  C. 

Letter. 

October  2,  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Glendinning,  W. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Glover,  Mrs.  Emma 

Profession. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Glover,  Mrs.  Fannie 

Letter. 

December  29,  1875." 

Deceased. 

Godfrey,  H  or  ton  C. 

Letter. 

August  30,  1871. 

Dismissed. 

Goldie,  Mrs.  Mary 

Profession. 

November  3,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Goldie,  Miss  Mary  E. 

Profession. 

February  28,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Gollhardt,  L.  A. 

Profession. 

March  24,  1886. 

* 

Goodrich,  Joseph 

Profession. 

April  27,  1845. 

Deceased. 

Goodell,  Miss  Mary 

Profession. 

June  25,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Goodman,  Miss  Ella 

Profession. 

February  21,  1872. 

Dismissed. 

Goodman,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

March  28,  1883. 

Deceased. 

Gordon,  Colin  F. 

Letter. 

May  30,  1883. 

Dismissed. 

Gordon,  Mrs.  Colin  F. 

Letter. 

May  30,  1883. 

Dismissed. 

Gordon,  Mrs.  Cornelia  A. 

Letter. 

April  27,  1853. 

Dismissed, 

Gould,  Miss  Ellen  R. 

Profession. 

October  3,  1872. 

Deceased. 

Gould,  Henry  W. 

Profession. 

March  i,  1872. 

Deceased. 

Gould,  John  Stowell 

Letter. 

October  30,  1863. 

Deceased. 

Gould,  Mrs.  John  Stowell 

Letter. 

October  30,  1863. 

Deceased. 

Gould,  Mrs.  Theodosia 

Letter. 

October  18,  1865. 

Deceased. 

Gould,  William  R. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1859. 

Deceased. 

Granger,  George  L. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1864. 

Deceased. 

Granger,  Gilbert  L. 

Letter. 

October  29,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Granger,  Mrs.  Harriet  A. 

Letter. 

July  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Granger,  Henry  C. 

Profession. 

January  i,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

Gray,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

April  30,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Gray,  Hugh 

Letter. 

April  30,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

*  Joined  another  Communion. 


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Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Green,  Mrs.  Margaret 

Letter. 

March  7,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Greenhill,  Mrs.  Catharine 

Profession. 

July  3,  1859. 

Deceased. 

Greenhill,  Francis 

Profession. 

May  I,  1859. 

Deceased. 

Griffiths,  Edwin 

Profession. 

January  12,  1876. 

Deceased. 

Groff,  Mrs.  Charles 

Letter. 

November  4,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Groff,  Cullen 

Profession. 

May  5,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Grout,  John  M. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Groves,  William  A. 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Grover,  Mrs.  Hanna  S.  D. 

Letter. 

October  26,  1859. 

Deceased. 

Grover,  Zuinglius 

Letter. 

October  26,  1859. 

Deceased. 

Grubb,  George  G. 

Letter. 

February  27,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

Grubb,  Mrs.  Maria 

Letter. 

February  27,  1846. 

Deceased. 

Gurnee,  Miss  Augusta 

Profession. 

June  29,  1864. 

Deceased. 

Gurnee,  Denton 

Letter. 

December  31,  1862. 

Deceased. 

Gurnee,  Miss  Mary  J. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

Gurnee,  Mrs.  Mary  Matilda 

Profession. 

March  6,  1847. 

Dismissed. 

Gurnee,  Walter  S.,  Jr. 

Profession. 

May  8,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

Gurnsey,  Mrs.  D.  K. 

Profession. 

August  7,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Hadley,  Miss  N.  C. 

Letter. 

July  3,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

Hair,  Mrs.  Eliza 

Letter. 

May  6,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Haines,  Richard  T. 

Letter. 

March  23,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Haight,  Mrs.  Eliza 

Letter. 

October  25,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Hall,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

August  29,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Halsey,  Mrs.  Eliza  S. 

Letter. 

January,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Hamilton,  Mrs.  Carrie  E. 

Letter. 

May  i,  1861. 

Dismissed. 

Hamilton,  George  A. 

Letter. 

July  I,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

Hamilton,  Miss  Margaret 

Profession. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Hamilton,  Mrs.  Mary  S. 

Letter. 

July  I,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

Hamilton,  Mrs.  Priscilla 

Letter. 

August  30,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Hamlin,  Mrs.  Catherine 

Profession. 

April  30,  1847. 

Dismissed. 

Harley,  Mrs.  Susan  B. 

Letter. 

September  i,  1867. 

Deceased. 

Hartley,  John  J. 

Profession. 

February  3,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Harvey,  Frederick  B. 

Profession. 

February  3,  1886. 

Deceased. 

Harvey,  Mrs.  Jeanette 

Profession. 

October  21,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Hasting,  Mrs.  Amelia  H. 

Profession. 

March  i,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Hastings,  Francis  H. 

Letter. 

December  27,  1842. 

Dismissed. 

Hathaway,  I.  W. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

Hathaway,  Mrs.  I.  W. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

Haven,  Austin  Flint 

Profession. 

December  30,  1874. 

Deceased. 

Haven,  Miss  Catharine  W. 

Profession. 

March  4,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Haven,  Luther 

Letter. 

December  23,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Hawley,  Miss  Clara 

Letter. 

November~7,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

Hawley,  Miss  Hattie 

Letter. 

November  7,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

Hawley,  John  B. 

Letter. 

November  7,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

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189 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Hawley,  John  Woodbridge 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Deceased. 

Hawley,  Mrs.  Mary  F. 

'Letter. 

November  7,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

Hawley,  Miss  Mary  H. 

Letter. 

November  7,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

Hayden,  Mrs.  Flora  P. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Hayden,  Mrs.  Mary  S. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Hayden,  Thomas  A. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Hayden,  W. 

Letter. 

December  30,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Hayden,  Mrs.  W. 

Letter. 

December  30,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Hayward,  Paul  D. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1875. 

Deceased. 

Helm,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Profession. 

June  12,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Helm,  Ernest  C. 

Letter. 

September  27,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Henderson,  Thomas 

Letter. 

March  5,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

Hennesy,  Mrs.  Emma 

Profession. 

December  10,  1876. 

Deceased. 

Herriott.  David 

Profession. 

January  3,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Hess,  Mrs.  Adelia 

Letter. 

May  r,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Hewes,  Mrs.  Eunice  R. 

Letter. 

April  26,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Heydock,  Mrs.  Harriet 

Letter 

August  29,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Heydock,  Mills  O. 

Profession. 

August  29,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Hickok,  Chester  R. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Hickok,  Mrs.  Cornelia 

Letter. 

February  25,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Higgins,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  S. 

Letter. 

August  24,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

High,  Mrs.  Anna 

Letter. 

December  29,  1845. 

Deceased. 

High,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

High,  George  M. 

Profession. 

March  3,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

High,  John 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

High,  Mrs.  Louisa  C. 

Profession. 

July  2,  1875. 

Dismissed, 

High,  Mrs.  Mary  Z. 

Profession. 

May  2,  1866. 

Deceased. 

Hill,  Mrs.  Agnes 

Letter. 

December  10,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Hill,  Cyrus  F. 

Letter. 

February  2,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Hill,  Mrs.  Flora  P. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Hill,  Henry  L. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Hill,  Mrs.  Kate  Stratton 

Profession. 

March  25,  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Hills,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

December  27,  1865. 

Deceased. 

Hills,  Miss  Mary  C. 

Letter. 

December  27,  1865. 

Deceased. 

Hitchcock,  Mrs.  Anna  J. 

Profession. 

April  30,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Hodgson,  Mrs.  Eliza 

Profession. 

March  4,  1861. 

Dismissed. 

Hogan,  Mrs.  Henrietta 

Letter. 

December  27,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Holbrook,  Miss  Julia  T. 

Profession. 

May  2,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Holmes,  Charles  C. 

Letter. 

May  i,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Holmes,  Mrs.  Mary  M. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Holland,  Charles 

Letter. 

August  31,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Holland,  Mrs.  Sophronia 

Letter. 

August  31,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Holliday,  Adam 

Letter. 

June  i,  1870. 

Deceased. 

Holliday,  Miss  Sallie 

Profession. 

July  i,  1891. 

Deceased. 

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Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Hollister,  Mrs.  Harriet  M. 

Letter. 

November  2,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Holman,  Mrs.  Mary  J. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Deceased. 

Holt,  Devillo  R. 

Letter. 

May  5,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Holt,  Mrs.  Ellen  M. 

Letter. 

March  5,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Hood,  David 

Letter. 

September  7,  1847. 

Dismissed. 

Hood,  Mrs.  Maria 

Letter. 

September  3,  1847. 

Deceased. 

Hooker,  Edward 

Letter. 

March  4,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Hooker,  Mrs.  Eliza 

Profession. 

April  30,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Hooker,  John  W. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Hooker,  Mrs.  John  W. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Hopkins,  Robert  E. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Hopper,  Miss  Mary  Ann 

Profession. 

June  29,  1860. 

Deceased. 

Horlock,  Miss  Clara  J. 

Profession. 

February  8,  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Hough,  Oramel  S. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Howell,  Mrs.  Isabella 

Letter. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Howell,  J.  Wilson 

Letter. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Howland,  Henry 

Profession. 

April  19,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Howland,  Mrs.  Jane  Eliza 

Profession. 

August  31,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Howe,  Robert  H. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Howe,  Mrs.  Susan  N. 

Letter. 

May  i,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Hoyt,  Mrs.  Kate  B. 

Profession. 

April  26,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Hubbard,  Miss  Alice  P. 

Profession. 

June  21,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Hubbard,  Mrs.  Alvira 

Letter. 

May  3,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Hubbard,  Mrs.  Caroline 

Profession. 

April  23,  1873. 

Deceased. 

Hubbard,  Mrs.  Juliette  E. 

Letter. 

August  6,  1842. 

Dismissed. 

Hubbard,  Mrs.  Mary  Ann 

Letter. 

March  i,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Huber,  Henry  S. 

Profession. 

November  I,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Huber,  Mrs.  Priscilla  Jane 

Profession. 

December  28,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

Humphrey,  Mrs.  E.  F. 

Letter. 

November  3,  1867. 

Dismissed. 

Humphrey,  J.  E. 

Letter. 

November  3,  1867. 

Dismissed. 

Humphrey,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

April  26,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Huggins,  Miss  Julia  S. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Huggins,  Miss  Minnie  T. 

Profession. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Hunt,  A.  Lucas 

Letter. 

May  3,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Hunt,  Mrs.  Caroline  T. 

Letter. 

May  3,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Hunt,  Charles  H. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1865. 

Deceased. 

Hunt,  Edwin 

Letter. 

September  i,  1854. 

Deceased. 

Hunt,  Mrs.  Eleanor 

Letter. 

February  26,  1862. 

Dismissed. 

Hunt,  E.  Hamilton 

Profession. 

April  19,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Hunt,  Miss  Esther  M. 

Profession. 

March  5,  1875. 

Deceased. 

Hunt,  K.  C. 

Profession. 

November  i,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Hunt,  Mrs.  K.  C. 

Profession. 

November,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Hunt,  Lizzie  S. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Hunt,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

August  29,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

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By  an  oversight  of    the   printer  the   following   names  were  omitted 
from  the  Dismissed  and  Deceased  list,  when  this  Volume  was  issued. 

Names. 

How  admitted.         When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

nissed. 

Isham,  Henry  P. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

nissed. 

Jackman,  Miss  Jennie  E. 

Profession. 

May  4,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

nissed. 

Jacobus,  Augustus  L. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1844. 

Deceased. 

iissed. 

Jacobus.  Mrs.  Sarah 

Letter. 

October  31,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

jased. 

James,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

September  i,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

iissed. 

Janson,  Egbert  L. 

Profession 

.     March  i,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

^ased. 

Jarboe,  Mrs.  Fannie 

Letter. 

November  2,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

;ased. 

Jay,  Mrs.  Cynthia  W. 

Letter. 

August  6,  1842. 

Dismissed. 

:ased. 

Jenks,  John 

Profession 

,     April  29.  1858. 

Dismissed. 

.  iissed. 

Jenks,  Mrs.  Pamelia  A. 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

iissed. 

Jennings,  Mrs.  H.  W. 

Letter. 

August  7,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

:ased. 

Jervis,  William 

Letter. 

January  2,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

iissed. 

Jervis,  Mrs.  Christina 

Letter. 

January  2,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

iissed. 

Johnson,  Seth 

Letter. 

June  i.  1842. 

Dismissed. 

lissed. 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Seth 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Dismissed. 

iissed. 

Johnson,  Miss  Julia  M. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

iissed. 

Johnson,  Miss  Caroline  E. 

Profession. 

October  18,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

:ased. 

Johnson,  Henry 

Profession. 

April  19,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

:ased. 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Maria 

Profession. 

July  5,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

iissed. 

Johnston,  James  M. 

Letter. 

February  28,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

ased. 

Johnston,  J.  S. 

Letter. 

May  3,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

ased. 

Jones,  Mrs.  Sarah  J. 

Letter. 

September  4,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

.issed. 

Jones,  Mrs.  Frances  M. 

Letter. 

August  6,  1842. 

Deceased. 

tissed. 

Joy,  Mrs.  M.  Carrie 

Letter. 

September  29,  1886 

,   Dismissed. 

issed. 

Judson,  Edwin 

Letter. 

October  21,  1843. 

Deceased. 

iissed. 

iissed. 

ased. 

issed. 

issed. 

iissed. 

jvey,  Mrs.  Annie 
Key,  George 
Key,  Miss  Mary 
Kester,  Mrs.  Flora  E. 

Letter.           june  26, 
Letter.           june  26, 
Letter.          June  26, 
Letter.           May  19, 

1878. 
1878. 
1878. 
1886. 

Dismissed. 
Dismissed. 
Dismissed. 
Dismissed. 

Kester,  Francis  Ernhart 

Profession.    April  21 

,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Kimball,  Mrs.  Delia 

Letter.          January  6,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

190 

N 

Hollister,  P 

Holman,  IV 

Holt,  Devi: 

Holt,  Mrs. 

Hood,  Dav 

Hood,  Mrs 

Hooker,  E( 

Hooker,  M 

Hooker,  Jo 

Hooker,  M 

Hopkins,  I 

Hopper,  M 

Horlock,  ft 

Hough,  Or 

Howell,  M 

Howell,  J. 

Howland, 

Howland, 

Howe,  Rol 

Howe,  Mrs 

Hoyt,  Mrs. 

Hubbard, 

Hubbard, 

Hubbard, 

Hubbard, 

Hubbard, 

Huber,  He 

Huber,  Mi 

Humphre) 

Humphre) 

Humphre) 

Huggins,  1 

Huggins,  I 

Hunt,  A.  1 

Hunt,  Mrs 

Hunt,  Chs 

Hunt,  Ed\ 

Hunt,  Mrs 

Hunt,  E.  Hamilton  Profession.     April  19,  1050.  Dismissed. 

Hunt,  Miss  Esther  M.  Profession.    March  5,  1875.  Deceased. 

Hunt,  K.  C.  Profession.    November  i,  1854.      Dismissed. 

Hunt.  Mrs.  K.  C.  Profession.    November,  1854.         Dismissed. 

Hunt,  Lizzie  S.  Profession.    January  12,  1877.        Dismissed. 

Hunt,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Letter.  August  29,  1860.          Dismissed. 


NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Hunt,  Mrs.  Sophia 

Letter. 

September  i,  1854. 

Deceased. 

Hunter,  Mrs.  Electa 

Letter. 

November  3,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Hunter,  Mrs.  Hannah 

Letter. 

December  27,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Hunter,  Robert 

Letter. 

December  27,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Hurd,  Egbert 

Letter. 

December  3,  1863. 

Deceased. 

Hurd,  Mrs.  Sarah  G. 

Letter. 

October  21,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Ingraham,  Mrs.  Francis 

Profession. 

July  i,  1864. 

Deceased. 

Irwin,  Mrs.  Hannah 

Letter. 

October  20,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Isham,  Mrs.  Catherine 

Profession. 

March  i,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Isham,  I.  Nelson 

Profession. 

April  30,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Isham,  Ralph  N. 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Jones,  J.  Edward 

Profession. 

September  3,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Jones,  Mrs.  Harriet  D. 

Letter. 

December  27,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Jones,  Lavant  L. 

Profession. 

June  7,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Jones,  N.  A. 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Jones,  Reuben  D. 

Letter. 

December  27,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Jordan,  James  O. 

Letter. 

October  30,  1872. 

Dismissed. 

Judd,  Mrs.  Adaline  R. 

•  Profession. 

July  5,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Judson,  Mrs.  E. 

Letter. 

Octbber  21,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Kasson,  Mrs.  Melinda 

Letter. 

April  8,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Kedzie,  J.  H. 

Profession. 

October  25,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Kedzie,  Mrs.  Mary  E. 

Profession. 

April  5,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Keeler,  Adam  C. 

Letter. 

June  8,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Keep,  Mrs.  Albert 

Letter. 

June  28,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Keep,  Mrs.  Jennie  H. 

Letter. 

July  3,  1872. 

Deceased. 

Kellogg,  Charles  P. 

Letter. 

September  5,  1862. 

Deceased. 

Kellogg,  Mrs.  Helen  L. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Kellogg,  Mrs.  Mary  Louisa 

Profession. 

August  31,  1857. 

Deceased. 

Kellogg,  Palmer  V. 

Letter. 

February  26,  1873. 

Deceased. 

Kellogg,  Samuel  N. 

Letter. 

March,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Kelley,  James 

Letter. 

September  2,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Kendrick,  Mrs.  Carrie  M. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Keneagy,  Anna  S. 

Letter. 

October  3,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Keneagy,  Mrs.  Barbara 

Letter. 

October  3,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Keneagy,  Jacob  S. 

Letter. 

October  30,  1878. 

Deceased. 

Kent,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

March  28,  1883. 

Dismissed. 

Kent,  Miss  Mary  R. 

Letter. 

September  28,  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Kent,  Loren 

Profession. 

December  3,  1890. 

Dismissed. 

Key,  Mrs.  Annie 

Letter. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Key,  George 

Letter. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Key,  Miss  Mary 

Letter. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Kester,  Mrs.  Flora  E. 

Letter. 

May  19,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Kester,  Francis  Ernhart 

Profession. 

April  21,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Kimball,  Mrs.  Delia 

Letter. 

January  6,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

I92 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Kimball,  Miss  Frances  M. 

Profession. 

September  i,  1848. 

Deceased. 

Kimball,  Miss  Sophia  B. 

Profession. 

January  29,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Kimball,  Mrs.  Sophia  C. 

Profession. 

May  5,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

King,  Mrs.  Aurelia  C. 

Profession. 

July  4,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

King,  Edward 

Letter. 

October  31,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

King,  Henry  W. 

Profession. 

September  i,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

King,  Henry  W.,  Jr. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

King,  Mrs.  Lucretia  W. 

Letter. 

May  22,  1867. 

Dismissed. 

King,  Tuthill 

Letter. 

January  2,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

King,  Mrs.  Tuthill 

Letter. 

January  2,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Kirk,  Mrs.  Louisa 

Profession. 

October  3,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Kirker,  Miss  Luella  F. 

Letter. 

January  2,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Kirker,  Mrs.  Marion 

Letter. 

January  2,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Kirker,  Thomas 

Letter. 

January  2,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Knapp,  Mrs.  Henrietta  E. 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Knox,  J.  Suydam 

Letter. 

June  24,  1891. 

Deceased. 

Ladd,  Mrs.  Mary  Jane 

Profession. 

April  i,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Laird,  Alexander 

Letter. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Lake,  David  J. 

Letter. 

October  31,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Lake,  Mrs.  David  J. 

Profession. 

October  31,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Lander,  Mrs.  Sarah 

Letter. 

April  30,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

Langheim,  Henry  W. 

Letter. 

November  27,  1889. 

Dismissed. 

Lansing,  Mrs.  C. 

Profession. 

August  7,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Larson,  Miss  Elizabeth 

Profession. 

February  25,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Larson,  Miss  Louisa 

Profession. 

November  i,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Larson,  Miss  Rachel 

Profession. 

February  25,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Laton,  C.  A. 

Letter. 

September  3,  1869. 

Dismissed. 

Laton,  Mrs.  Henrietta 

Letter. 

September  3,  1869. 

Dismissed. 

Law,  Miss  Emma  C. 

Profession. 

February  28,  1872. 

Deceased. 

Lawrence,  James  A. 

Profession. 

September  2,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Lee,  Mrs.  Jane 

Letter. 

August  30,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Lewis,  Mrs.  Amanda  K. 

Letter. 

January  7,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Lewis,  Miss  Ann 

Letter. 

December  31,  1847. 

Deceased. 

Lewis,  Mrs.  Catherine  B. 

Letter. 

December  28,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Lewis,  Mrs.  Emma  L. 

Letter. 

January  2,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Lewis,  Guy  A. 

Letter. 

January  2,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Lewis,  John  H. 

Letter. 

January  7,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Livingstone,  Miss  Catherine 

Profession. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Livermore,  Mrs.  A.  R. 

Letter. 

February  4,  1885. 

Deceased. 

Livermore,  Miss  Fannie  A. 

Letter. 

February  4,  1885. 

Deceased. 

Lloyd,  Mrs.  Mary  Eleanor 

Letter. 

September  29,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Locke,  Mrs.  Helen 

Letter. 

June  26,  1  86  1 

Dismissed. 

Locke,  Sidney  E. 

Letter. 

June  26,  1861 

Dismissed. 

Lombard,  J.  H. 

Profession. 

November  15,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


193 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Loomis,  Mrs.  Mary  B. 

Profession. 

October  25,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Lord,  Erastus  D. 

Profession. 

April  i,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Lord,  George  P. 

Letter. 

May  6,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Lord,  Mrs.  Mary  B. 

Letter. 

May  6,  1860.. 

Deceased. 

Lowden,  Alexander  H. 

Letter. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Lowden,  Mrs.  A.  H. 

Letter. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Lyman,  Charles  W. 

Profession. 

July  7,  1867. 

Dismissed. 

MacCoun,  Mrs.  AngelicaR.  D 

.Letter. 

January  10,  1873. 

Dismissed. 

MacCoun,  Townsend 

Letter. 

January  10,  1873. 

Dismissed. 

Magie,  William  H. 

Profession. 

April  19,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Mahaffey,  Samuel 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Main,  Miss  Isabella 

Letter. 

March  30,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Main,  Miss  Mary 

Letter. 

March  30,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Main,  Miss  Sarah 

Letter. 

March  30,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Marlett,  Isaac 

Letter. 

April  27,  1845. 

Deceased. 

Marsh,  Mrs.  Cornelia  E. 

Letter. 

March  I,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Marsh,  Sylvester 

Letter. 

May  i,  1861. 

Dismissed. 

Marsh,  Volney  A. 

Letter. 

April  27,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Marsh,  Mrs.  Volney  A. 

Letter. 

April  27,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Marshall,  Mrs.  J.  A. 

Letter. 

June  30,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Mathews,  Henry  M. 

Letter. 

October  28,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Mather,  Mrs.  Ann  T. 

Letter. 

October  25,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Mather,  Miss  Caroline  A. 

Profession. 

December  29,  1859. 

Deceased. 

Mather,  Hiram  F. 

Letter. 

December  30,  1857. 

Deceased. 

Mather,  Miss  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

August  29,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Mather,  Ralph  T. 

Letter. 

February  28,  1866. 

Deceased. 

Matteson,  Mrs.  Cecilia 

Profession. 

June  29,  1844, 

Deceased. 

May,  Mrs.  Nancy  C. 

Letter. 

September  i,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

McAfee,  Miss  Bessie 

Profession. 

November  5,  1875. 

Deceased. 

McAllister,  David  M. 

Profession. 

May  4,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

McAllister,  Mrs.  J. 

Letter. 

February  18,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

McAllister,  John 

Letter. 

February  18,  1863. 

Dismissed 

Me  Arthur,  Mrs.  M. 

Letter. 

May  4,  1877, 

Dismissed. 

McBean,  Mrs.  Agnes  E. 

Better. 

February  25,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

McCagg,  Mrs.  Caroline  B. 

Letter. 

April  19,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

McCagg,  Isaac 

Letter. 

April  19,  1847. 

Deceased. 

McChesney,  Mrs.  Abigail 

Letter. 

August  31,  1849. 

Deceased. 

McChesney,  Robert  M. 

Letter. 

September  i,  1858. 

Deceased. 

McChesney,  Waters 

Letter. 

September  i,  1858. 

Deceased. 

McClure,  Mrs.  A.  N. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

McClure,  Mrs.  J. 

Letter. 

January  6,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

McClure,  Robert 

Letter. 

June  i,  1884. 

Dismissed. 

McConnell,  W.  A. 

Letter. 

October  7,  1888. 

Dismissed. 

McDonald,  Alexander 

Letter. 

March  23,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

194 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

McDonald,  Mrs.  Annie 

Profession. 

March  i.  1857. 

Dismissed. 

McDonald,  John 

Letter. 

July  I,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

McDonald,  Mrs.  John 

Letter. 

July  i,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

McDonald,  Miss  Maggie 

Letter. 

March  29,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

McDonald,  Miss  Marion 

Letter. 

November  2,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

McDowell,  Mrs.  Eliza  D. 

Letter. 

November  6,  1859. 

Deceased. 

McDowell,  Mrs.  M.  A. 

Letter. 

September"  4,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

McDowell,  Samuel 

Profession. 

September  4,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

McElnea,  Hamilton 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

Deceased. 

McElnea,  Mrs.  Matilda  L. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

McElroy,  John  G.  R. 

Letter. 

October  31,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

McGennis,  Charles  B. 

Profession. 

May  5,  1876. 

Deceased. 

McGennis,  John  W. 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Deceased. 

McGennis,  John  W.,  Jr. 

Profession. 

November  3,  1876. 

Deceased. 

McGennis,  Mrs.  Susan  J. 

Letter. 

September  5,  1856. 

Deceased. 

McKee,  Mrs.  Hannah 

Profession. 

January  6,  1844. 

Deceased. 

McKenzie,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

October  30,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

McKibbon,  Mrs.  Esther 

Letter. 

August  30,  1850. 

Deceased. 

McKinley,  Mrs.  Margaret  C. 

Profession. 

March  i,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

McLean,  John 

Letter. 

January  2,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

McLean,  Mrs.  John 

Profession. 

March  2,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

McVeagh,  Mrs.  Emily  J.  V. 

Letter. 

June  22,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Meacham,  Miss  Augusta 

Profession. 

April  i,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Meacham,  Mrs.  Rebecca 

Profession. 

April  i,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Meacham,  Silas 

Profession. 

April  i,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Meeker,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

November  i,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Meeker,  Joseph 

Letter. 

August  31,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Meeker,  Miss  Julia 

Letter. 

December  23,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Meeker,  Mrs.  Margaret 

Letter. 

January  3,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Meeker,  Mrs.  Phebe 

Letter. 

December  23,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Meeteer,  J.  H. 

Profession. 

December  30,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Meldrum^  Mrs.  Amelia 

Letter. 

January  10,  1873. 

Dismissed. 

Mell,  MisslVIatilda 

Profession. 

May  4,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Merriam,  Charles  W. 

Letter. 

October,  1871. 

Dismissed. 

Merriman,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1865. 

Deceased. 

Merrill,  George  W. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Merrill,  Miss  Julia  B. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Merrill,  Mrs.  Sarah  F. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Merritt,  Mrs.  Hannah 

Profession. 

April  19,  1847. 

Deceased. 

Messer,  John 

Letter. 

October,  1871. 

Deceased. 

Messer,  Mrs.  John 

Letter. 

October,  1871. 

Dismissed. 

Metcalf,  Mrs.  Jerusha 

Letter. 

January  10,  1873. 

Deceased. 

Metcalf,  Mrs.  Lilla  M. 

Letter. 

November  22,  1882. 

Dismissed. 

Metcalf,  Ralph 

Letter. 

November  22,  1882. 

Dismissed. 

NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Meyer,  Ernst 

Profession. 

April  30,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

Miller,  John  W. 

Profession. 

February  25,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Miller,  Mrs.  Julia  P. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Miller,  Linus  H. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Miller,  Mrs.  Sarah 

Profession. 

February  25,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Miller,  Dr.  Wm.  S. 

Profession. 

February  25,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Mitchell,  David  E. 

Letter. 

March  28,  1883. 

Dismissed. 

Mitchell,  Miss  Eleanor  M. 

Letter. 

March  28,  1883. 

Dismissed. 

Mitchell,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

December  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Mitchell,  Miss  Ida  D. 

Letter. 

March  28,  1883. 

Dismissed. 

Mitchell,  Mrs.  Martha 

Letter. 

March  28,  1883. 

Dismissed. 

Mitchell,  William 

Profession. 

May  6,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Mitchell,  William  A. 

Profession. 

May  6,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Mixsell,  H.  W. 

Profession. 

December  28,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Montgomery,  Miss  Emily  C. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Montgomery,  Mrs.  Laura  A. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Montgomery,  Mrs.  Sarah  H. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Montgomery,  Miss  Susan 

Profession. 

August  31,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Montgomery,  William  P. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Moore,  Mrs.  Annie 

Letter. 

January  10,  1873. 

Dismissed. 

Moore,  Miss  Annie  M. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

* 

Moore,  Edward  T. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Moore,  Mrs.  Eliza  A. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

•it- 

Moore,  Gurdon  G. 

Letter. 

January  10,  1873. 

Dismissed. 

Moore,  Mrs.  Jennie  Amisted 

Profession. 

June  29,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Moore,  Mrs.  Julia  A. 

Letter. 

September  30,  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Moore,  Mrs.  Margaret 

Letter. 

April  27,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Moore,  Mrs.  Matilda 

Letter. 

May  30,  1883. 

Deceased. 

Moore,  Miss  Minnie  S. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

* 

Moore,  Nathan  W. 

Profession. 

June  27,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Moore,  Sampson  C. 

Letter. 

October  30,  1873. 

Dismissed. 

Moore,  Samuel  H. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

* 

Moore,  Miss  Sarah  E. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

* 

Moore,  Stewart 

Letter. 

April  27,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Moore,  Miss  Susie  H. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

* 

Moore,  V.  Mumford 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Moorehouse,  Mrs.  Frederica 

Profession. 

February  28,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Morehouse,  Lewis  P. 

Profession. 

June  24,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Morgan,  Lewis  R. 

Profession. 

February  22,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Morgan,  Mrs.  S. 

Letter. 

January  5,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Morgan,  Mrs.  Susan  P. 

Profession. 

February  22,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Moseley,  Flavel 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

*  Joined  another  Communion. 


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Names.  How  admitted. 

Moulton,  Mrs.  Charlotte  H.   Letter. 

Muir,  Mrs.  Ellen  Letter. 

Muir,  John  Letter. 

Munger,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Letter. 

Murdock,  Hamilton  Profession. 

Murray,  Mrs.  Cornelia  A.  Letter. 

Murray,  Mrs.  Margaret  Letter. 

Murray,  Richard  Letter. 

Murray,  Mrs.  William  H.  Letter. 

Myers,  Mrs.  Eliza  Letter. 

Neef,  Mrs.  Susan  C.  Letter. 

Neeley,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Profession. 

Nelson,  Miss  Eliza  Profession. 

Nelson,  Miss  Jane  Profession. 

Nelson,  Miss  Sarah  Profession. 

Newton,  Miss  Jessie  Letter. 

Newton,  Walter  Profession. 

Nichols,  Miss  Adelia  A.  Profession. 

Nichols,  Mrs.  Annie  E.  Profession. 

Nichols,  Miss  Amelia  F.  Profession. 

Nicholls,  A.  B.  Letter. 

Nitchie,  Mrs.  Catherine  E.  Profession. 

Nitchie,  J.  Howard  Letter. 

Norris,  Benjamin  F.  Letter. 

Norton,  Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Letter. 

Norton,  R.  M.  Letter. 

Norton,  Mrs.  R.  M.  Letter. 

Northam,  Mrs.  Jerusha  Letter. 

Ogden,  John  Wesley  Profession. 

Oglevie,  Miss  Agnes  Letter. 

Oliver,  Albert  D.  Letter. 

Olmstead,  Mrs.  Jessie  B.  Letter. 

Olmstead,  Joseph  N.  Letter. 

Olmstead,  Lucius  D.  Letter. 

Olson,  Miss  Melinda  Profession. 

Orcutt,  Miss  Mary  S.  Profession. 

Orchard,  J.  C.  Letter. 

Orchard,  Mrs.  J.  C.  Letter. 

Orr,  Mrs.  Eliza  Ann  Letter. 

Orr,  Jacob  H.  Letter. 

Orr,  Samuel  C.  Profession. 

Orr,  William  V.  L.  Letter. 

Osborne,  Mrs.  Antoinette  Profession. 

Otis,  James  Letter. 


When  admitted.  Remarks. 

June  26,  1854.  Dismissed. 

June  2,  1886.  Dismissed. 

June  2,  1886.  Dismissed. 

January  2,  1852.  Deceased. 

December  i,  1889.  Dismissed. 

November  29,  1886.  Dismissed. 

December  31,  1844.  Dismissed. 

December  31,  1844.  Dismissed. 

November  29,  1882.  Deceased. 

August  30,  1858.  Dismissed. 

March  i,  1850.  Dismissed. 

July  i,  1859.  Dismissed. 

September  2,  1874.  Deceased. 

September  30,  1870.  Dismissed. 

June  29,  1877.  Dismissed. 

December  31,  1862.  Dismissed. 

April  19,  1858.  Dismissed. 

January  12,  1877.  Dismissed. 

October  29,  1856.  Dismissed. 

March  5,  1875.  Dismissed. 
October  3,  1883.     Ordained  to  Miniitry. 

September  29,  1864.  Dismissed. 

July  i,  1874.  Dismissed. 

May  5,  1876.  Dismissed. 

December  27,  1847.  Dismissed. 

January  3,  1868.  Deceased. 

July  3,  1868.  Deceased. 

December  29,  1859.  Deceased. 

April  3,  1885.  Deceased. 

November  22, 1882.  Dismissed. 

November  29,  1886.  Deceased. 

December  29,  1852.  Deceased. 

September  5,  1856.  Dismissed. 

October  24,  1848.  Deceased. 

October  31,  1851.  Dismissed. 

April  26,  1847.  Dismissed. 

March  i,  1878.  Dismissed. 

March  i,  1878.  Dismissed. 

July  i,  1863.  Dismissed. 

May  4,  1877.  Dismissed. 

June  14,  1858.  Dismissed. 

May  4,  1887.  Deceased. 

February  28,  1868.  Dismissed. 

May  i,  1859.  Dismissed. 


NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


I97 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Otis,  Mrs.  Margaretta 

Letter. 

May  i,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Page,  Benjamin  V. 

Profession. 

June  21,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Page,  Mrs.  Charles  L. 

Profession. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Page,  Mrs.  Hattie  M. 

Profession. 

January  2,  1867. 

Dismissed. 

Page,  Mrs.  Isabella  F. 

Letter. 

October  29,  1862. 

Dismissed. 

Page,  Mrs.  Jane  E. 

Profession. 

December  27,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Page,  Peter 

Profession. 

April  30,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Page,  Robert  P. 

Profession. 

December  23,  1863. 

Deceased. 

Paine,  Mrs.  Mary  C. 

Letter. 

November  7,  1869. 

Deceased. 

Paine,  Thomas  L. 

Letter. 

November  7,  1860. 

Deceased. 

Park,  Henry  C. 

Letter. 

October  3,  1883. 

Deceased. 

Park,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

October  3,  1883.    - 

Deceased. 

Parker,  Mrs.  Harriet  A. 

Letter.     . 

April  26,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Parker,  William  G. 

Profession 

March  i,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Parker,  Mrs.  William  G. 

Profession. 

March  i,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Parsons,  James  A. 

Letter. 

December  31,  1862. 

Dismissed. 

Patterson,  Miss  Catherine 

Profession. 

May  2,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Patterson,  James  H. 

Letter. 

January  30,  1884. 

Deceased. 

Patterson,  Mrs.  Jeanie 

Profession. 

February  21,  1872. 

Deceased. 

Patterson,  Mrs.  Julia  A. 

Letter. 

August  7,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Patrick,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

February  6,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Paul,  Mrs.  Eliza 

Dismissed. 

Pease,  Lewis  A. 

Letter. 

December  30,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Pease,  Richard  M. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Peck,  Mrs.  Clarissa  C. 

Profession, 

April  5,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Peck,  James 

Letter. 

October  31,  1845. 

Deceased. 

Peck,  Mrs.  Olive  G. 

Letter. 

December  27,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Penfield,  Mrs.  Sarah  E. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Penfield,  Smith  A. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Phelps,  Edward  F. 

Letter. 

March  I,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Phelps,  Mrs.  Lucy 

Letter. 

September  29,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Phelps,  Mrs.  Maria  H. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1854. 

Deceased. 

Poineer,  John  H. 

Letter. 

March  I,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Poineer,  Mrs.  John  H. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Points,  Miss  Juliette 

Profession. 

June  3,  1888. 

Dismissed. 

Pollard,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

August  30,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Pollard,  Miss  Myra  L. 

Letter. 

September  12,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Pollock,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Profession. 

March  3,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Pomeroy,  Eleazer 

Letter. 

June  25,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Pomeroy,  Elihu  F. 

Letter. 

June  25,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Pomeroy,  S.  B. 

Letter. 

January  4,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Pomeroy,  Mrs.  Sarah  Ann 

Letter. 

March  I,  1854. 

Deceased. 

Poritz,  Albert 

Profession. 

February  28,  1872. 

Dismissed. 

Poritz,  Henry 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

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SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Poritz,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

September  30,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Porter,  Mrs.  Abby 

Profession. 

December  30,  1863. 

Deceased. 

Porter,  Mrs.  Mary  R. 

Profession. 

December  29,  1869. 

Dismissed. 

Pottinger,  John 

Letter. 

June  6,  1886. 

Deceased. 

Pierce,  Mrs.  Eliza  J. 

Letter. 

June  27,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Pitney,  Aaron 

Profession. 

April  5,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Pitney  Mrs.  Betsey  H. 

Letter. 

October  25,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Pitkin,  Miss  Louisa 

Profession. 

April  30,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Pitkin,  Mrs.  Nancy 

Letter. 

May  3,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Pitkin,  Solomon 

Letter. 

May  3,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Prescott,  Mrs.  Amanda  S. 

Letter. 

September  30,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Preston,  Mrs.  Emma  C. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Preston,  Miss  Emma  C. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Price,  Edward  F. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

Price,  Jeremiah 

Letter. 

August  7,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Purington,  Miss  Abby  L. 

Profession. 

April  27,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Purington,  George  E. 

Letter. 

June  1  8,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Purington,  James  A. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Purington,  Mrs.  Mary  Ann 

Profession. 

October  29,  1862. 

Deceased. 

Purington,  Mrs.  Mary  R. 

Profession. 

April  27,  1853. 

Deceased. 

Purdy,  Ralph 

Letter. 

January  6,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Putnam,  J.  B. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Putnam,  Mrs.  Julia  B. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Quinlan,  Charles  H. 

Letter. 

October  30,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

Quinlan,  Mrs.  Jane  C. 

Profession. 

November  2,  1853. 

Deceased. 

Quinlan,  Miss  Jane  H. 

Letter. 

May  i,  1861. 

Dismissed. 

Quinlan,  Dr.  John  D. 

Letter. 

November  2,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Quinlan,  Miss  Kate  C. 

Profession. 

July  i,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Quinlan,  Mrs.  Ruth  E. 

Letter. 

October  20,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

Quinan,  Mrs.  Emma  E. 

Profession. 

February  21,  1872. 

Dismissed. 

Quinan,  George 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Quigley,  Mrs.  Isabella 

Profession. 

December  30,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Rabe,  Mrs.  Frances  E. 

Profession. 

February  2,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Ralston,  Robert  W. 

Letter. 

March  20,  1868. 

Deceased. 

Rankin,  Miss  Nanetta  M. 

Profession. 

October  2,  1889. 

Dismissed. 

Ransom,  J.  W. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Ransom,  Mrs.  J.  W. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Raymond,  Mrs.  Amelia 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Raymond,  Miss  Augusta  B. 

Profession. 

April  12.  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Raymond,  Benjamin  W. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Raymond,  George  L. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Raymond,  Miss  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

April  12,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Raymond,  Mrs.  Susan  J. 

Profession. 

March  I,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Raymond,  Miss  Sarah  L. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

NAMES  OF  MEMBERS. 


199 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Read,  Miss  Emily 

Profession. 

April  20,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Reed,  Mrs.  Caroline 

Profession. 

May  2,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Reed,  Josiah  H. 

Letter. 

September  i,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Reed,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

September  i,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Reid,  Mrs.  Eleanor  J. 

Letter. 

December  2,  1870. 

Deceased. 

Reynolds,  Mrs.  J.  E. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Rhines,  Mrs.  Clara 

Profession. 

June  24,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Rice,  Mrs.  Emma  L. 

Profession. 

June  26,  1861. 

Dismissed. 

Richards,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  M. 

Letter. 

December  22,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Richards,  Jonathan 

Letter. 

December  22,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Riddle,  Francis  A, 

Letter. 

June  29,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Riddle,  Mrs.  Sarah 

Letter. 

June  29,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Riggs,  George  W. 

Profession. 

May  30,  1884. 

Dismissed. 

Riley,  Frank  W. 

Profession. 

July  4,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Roberts,  Mrs.  Eveline 

Profession. 

May  4,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Roberts,  John  W. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Robinson,  Mrs.  Leonora 

Letter. 

December  31,  1862. 

Dismissed. 

Robinson,  Mrs.  Mary  E. 

Letter. 

May  5,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Robinson,  Samuel  B. 

Letter. 

December  3,  1890. 

Dismissed. 

Rochester,  Mrs.  Evalina  T. 

Letter. 

April  30,  1847 

Dismissed. 

Rockey,  Dr.  A.  E. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Rockwell,  AJpha 

Letter. 

June  28,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Rockwell,  Mrs.  A.  R. 

Letter. 

June  28,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Roe,  Mrs.  Catherine 

Letter. 

May  3,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Roe,  Nelson  C. 

Letter. 

May  3,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Rogers,  Edward  J. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Rogers,  Mrs.  Grace  J. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Rogers,  Miss  Mary 

Letter. 

December  30,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

Roloson,  Mrs.  Levanche  D. 

Profession. 

February  28,  1872. 

Deceased. 

Ross,  H.  A. 

Letter. 

January  4,  1891. 

Dismissed. 

Ross,  James  W. 

Letter. 

March  5,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Ross,  Mrs.  Jennie  Scott 

Letter. 

March  5,  1875. 

Deceased. 

Rowley,  Mrs.  Adaline  T. 

Profession. 

June  25,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Rowley,  De  Witt  C. 

Profession. 

June  25,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Ruggles,  George  F. 

Letter. 

May  i,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Ruggles,  Mrs.  Louisa  G. 

Letter. 

May  i,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Runyon,  Clark 

Letter. 

January  4,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Runyon,  Mrs.  Martha 

Letter. 

May  2,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Runyon,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

January  4,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Runyon,  Mrs.  Laura  J. 

Letter. 

May  3,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Rupert,  Christian 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Rupert,  Miss  Helen 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Russell,  Hugh  R. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Ryder,  Charles  E. 

Profession. 

September  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

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SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Saalfeld,  Richard 

Profession. 

May  3,  1872. 

Dismissed. 

Sabin,  A.  R. 

Letter. 

May  26,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Sabin,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

May  26,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Sacket,  Mrs.  H.  Louisa 

Letter. 

February  25,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Sanger,  Mrs.  Alice  F. 

Profession. 

August  27,  1873. 

Dismissed. 

Sanger,  James  McK. 

Profession. 

November  3,  1876. 

Deceased. 

Sargeant,  Miss  Carrie  Belle 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Sawyer,  A.  J. 

Letter. 

November  5,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Sawyer,  Mrs.  E.  W. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Scobie,  David 

Profession. 

May  2,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Scott,  Charles  G. 

Letter. 

April  4,  1884. 

Dismissed. 

Scoville,  Mrs.  Sarah 

Letter. 

February  4,  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Scripps,  Mrs.  Mary  E. 

Letter. 

January  4,  1856. 

Deceased. 

Sea,  George  C.  (S.  W.?) 

Letter. 

December  22,  1869. 

Dismissed. 

Searls,  William  P. 

Letter. 

July  7,  1876.' 

Dismissed. 

Sears,  E.  H. 

Profession. 

May  4,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Sears,  Mrs.  Julia  M. 

Letter. 

December  27,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Seats,  Miss  Phebe 

Letter. 

March  3,  1867. 

Deceased. 

Sears,  Mrs.  R.  W. 

Letter. 

May  4,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Selbie,  Miss  Jane 

Letter. 

January  6,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Shankland,  Mrs.  S.  A. 

Letter. 

February  2,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Shaw,  Mrs.  H.  M. 

Letter. 

September  3,  1847.  • 

Deceased. 

Sheadle,  J.  Wood 

Letter. 

February  2,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Sheldon,  Mrs.  Eliza  M. 

Letter. 

December  28,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Sherman,  Benjamin  F. 

Profession. 

November  2,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Sherman,  Howard 

Letter. 

December  29,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Sherman,  James  M. 

Profession. 

May  I,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Sherman,  Mrs.  Jane  Eliza 

Profession. 

November  2,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Sherman,  Mrs.  Louisa 

Letter. 

December  29,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Sherman,  Miss  Louisa  C. 

Profession. 

July  i,  1864. 

Deceased. 

Shipman,  Mrs.  Frances  E. 

Letter. 

March  6,  1847. 

Dismissed. 

Shipman,  George  E. 

Letter. 

March  6,  1847. 

Dismissed. 

Shipman,  Miss  Louisa 

Letter. 

March  3,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Short,  Colmore  H. 

Letter. 

February  4,  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Shove,  Mrs.  Ellen  E. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Shumway,  Edward  G. 

Profession. 

March  3,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Shumway,  Mrs.  Edward  G. 

Letter. 

March  2,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Shumway,  Edward  S. 

Letter. 

March  4,  1853. 

Deceased. 

Silcox,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

September  4,  1846. 

Deceased. 

Simpson,  Mrs.Wilhelmina  G 

.Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Sinclair,  Mrs.  L.  C. 

Letter. 

March  6,  1867 

Deceased. 

Singleton,  Mrs.  William 

Letter. 

March  2,  1877. 

Deceased. 

Sisson,  Miss  Jennie  W. 

Profession. 

September  18,  1871. 

Deceased. 

Skinner,  A.  P.  W. 

Letter. 

November  2,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

NAMES  OF   MEMBERS. 


201 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Skinner,  Mrs.  Eliza  Ann 

Letter. 

October  25,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Skinner,  Miss  Elizabeth 

Profession. 

June  24,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Skinner,  Dr.  E.  M. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Skinner,  Mrs.  E.  M. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Skinner,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  W. 

Letter. 

January  4,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Skinner,  Miss  Frederika 

Profession. 

June  28,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Skinner,  Hollis  R. 

Letter. 

October  29,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Skinner,  Mark 

Profession. 

April  26,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Skinner,  W.  H. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Slocum,  Herbert  W. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1854. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Miss  Abby  P. 

Letter. 

February  18,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Abraham  S. 

Profession. 

October  24,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Amos  R. 

Profession. 

September  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Charlotte  M. 

Letter. 

March  5,  1862. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Deborah 

Letter. 

November  i,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  E.  B. 

Letter. 

January  10,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Mrs.  E.  B. 

Letter. 

January  10,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  E.  Willard 

Profession. 

April  26,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Emma 

Letter. 

June  29,  1874. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Miss  Helen  M. 

Letter. 

December  21,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Henry 

Letter. 

July  4,  1851. 

Deceased. 

Smith,  Jacob  G. 

Profession. 

March  2,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  James  A. 

Letter. 

January  5,  1849 

Deceased. 

Smith,  Mrs.  J.  A. 

Letter. 

January  5,  1849 

Deceased. 

Smith,  Joseph  Means 

Profession. 

June  24,  1891. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Miss  Juliette  P. 

Profession. 

November  3,  1854. 

Deceased. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Mary, 

Letter. 

December  31,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Miss  Mary  A. 

Profession. 

June  27,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Melinda  W. 

Letter. 

March  4,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Orren  A. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Miss  Phebe 

Letter. 

July  4,  1851. 

Deceased. 

Smith,  Miss  Rachel 

Letter. 

March  2,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Sarah 

Letter. 

October  25,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Smyth,  Miss  Annie 

Letter. 

June  29,  1877. 

Deceased. 

Snow,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  A. 

Profession. 

April  26,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Snowhook,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

October  15,  1842. 

Dismissed. 

Southworth,  Gustavus  W. 

Letter. 

September  4,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Southworth,  Mrs.  G.  W. 

Letter. 

September  4,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Spafford,  Horatio  G. 

Profession. 

October  29,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Spafford,  Mrs.  H.  G. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1862. 

Dismissed. 

Speer,  Mrs.  Adelia 

Profession. 

July  6,  1844. 

Deceased. 

Speer,  Miss  Adelia  A. 

Profession. 

May  22,  1867. 

Dismissed. 

Speer,  Mrs.  Phebe  B. 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Speer,  Mrs.  Valeria 

Letter. 

October  15,  1842. 

Dismissed. 

202 


SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Spohn,  Miss  Bertha 

Profession. 

June  2,  1889. 

Dismissed. 

Spohn,  George 

Profession. 

April  30,  1880. 

Dismissed. 

Sprague,  William 

Profession. 

June  24,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Sprague,  Mrs.  William 

Letter. 

October  29,  1862. 

Dismissed. 

Squiers,  Mrs.  Catharine 

Letter. 

September  18,  1871. 

Dismissed. 

Stacy,  Arthur  G. 

Letter. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Stacy,  Mrs.  Henrietta  E. 

Profession. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Stahl,  Miss  Sophia 

Profession. 

June  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Stanley,  Miss  Nancy  H. 

Letter. 

August  13,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Stanwood,  Thaddeus  P. 

Letter. 

December  29,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Starkweather,  Charles  R. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Starkweather,  Mrs.  M.  E. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Starkweather,  Ralph  E. 

Profession. 

April  27,  1859. 

Dismissed, 

Steel,  Mrs.  Ann 

Profession. 

February  28,  1845. 

Deceased. 

Steel,  George 

Profession. 

March  2,  1865. 

Deceased. 

Steel,  Jonathan  W. 

Profession. 

June  14,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Steel,  Mrs.  Rebecca  A. 

Profession. 

April  30,  1847. 

Dismissed. 

Steele,  Mrs.  Mary  Mack 

Letter. 

October  29,  1862. 

Deceased. 

Steele,  William  B. 

Profession. 

July  7,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Steele,  Mrs.  William  B. 

Profession. 

July  7,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Stebbins,  Samuel  N. 

Letter. 

November  i,  1847. 

Dismissed. 

Stevens,  Miss  Mary 

Profession. 

November  5,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Stewart,  Mrs.  Angelina 

Profession. 

June  24,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Stewart,  William  W. 

Profession. 

June  24,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Stewart,  Mrs.  H.  B. 

Letter. 

March  i,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Stevens,  Mrs.  Diana 

Letter. 

November  3,  1848. 

Deceased. 

Stevens,  Miss  Elizabeth 

Profession. 

November  5,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Stevens,  George  W. 

Profession. 

June  24,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Stimpson,  William  E. 

Letter. 

April  30,  1847. 

Deceased. 

Stimson,  Alexander  L. 

Letter. 

July  7,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Stimson,  Mrs.  Alexander  L. 

Letter. 

July  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Stone,  Mrs.  Jane  E. 

Letter. 

July  3,  1846. 

Deceased. 

Stone,  Mrs.  Anna  M. 

Letter. 

March,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Stouffer,  Mrs.  Sarah  L, 

Letter. 

July  7,  1867. 

Dismissed. 

Stowe,  William  K. 

Profession. 

June  24,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Strong,  Mrs.  Adaline  S. 

Letter. 

October  20,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Surghnor,  Mrs.  L.  M. 

Letter. 

June  8,  1887. 

Deceased. 

Sutherland,  David  R.  H. 

Profession. 

March  i,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Sutton,  Jessie  B. 

Letter. 

September  3,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Sutton,  Mrs.  Sarah  E. 

Letter. 

May  2,  1866. 

Deceased. 

Swasey,  Mrs.  Edith  A. 

Profession. 

May  2,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Sweetland,  Warren  M. 

Letter. 

March  3,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Taintor,  Charles  M. 

Profession. 

April  19,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Taintor,  Mrs.  Susan 

Letter. 

November  5,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

NAMES  OF  MEMBERS. 


203 


Names.                         How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Tappan,  George  W. 

Letter. 

September  29,  1864. 

Deceased. 

Taylor,  Mrs.  Charles 

Letter. 

January  3,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Taylor,  Hudson  K. 

Profession. 

April  I,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Taylor,  Mrs.  Laura  M. 

Letter. 

October  30,  1872. 

Deceased. 

Taylor,  Mrs.  M. 

Letter. 

January  3,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Taylor,  Matthias 

Letter. 

January  3,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Taylor,  Rodney  L. 

Profession. 

March  3,  1876. 

Dismissed. 

Teed,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Telford,  Miss  Clara 

Profession. 

February  5,  1888. 

Dismissed. 

Temple,  Daniel  H. 

Letter. 

April  30,  1849. 

Dismissed. 

Temple,  Mrs.  Louisa  M. 

Letter. 

March  I,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Teresa,  Mrs.  Nicholas  D. 

Profession. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Thatcher,  Miss  Elizabeth 

Letter. 

February  28,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Thayer,  Mrs.  F.  W. 

Letter. 

July  28,  1886. 

Dismissed. 

Thomas,  Miss  Beryl 

Letter. 

November  25,  1890. 

Dismissed. 

Thomas,  Mrs.  Frances  A. 

Profession. 

April  26,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Thomas,  Mrs.  Lilian  G. 

Letter. 

June  2,  1889. 

Dismissed. 

Thomas,  Mrs.  Maria  S. 

Letter. 

July  i,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Thompson,  Mrs.  Betsey 

Letter. 

October  30,  1846. 

Deceased. 

Thompson,  Mrs.  Cecile  M. 

Letter. 

May  4,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Thompson,  Charles  E. 

Profession. 

August  29,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Thompson,  Mrs.  Hannah  H. 

Letter. 

October  25,  1843. 

Deceased. 

Thompson,  Harvey  M. 

Letter. 

March  20,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Thompson,  Mrs.  Jane  L. 

Letter. 

January  2,  1869. 

Dismissed. 

Thompson,  Joseph 

Letter. 

January  2,  1869. 

Dismissed. 

Thompson,  Mrs.  Mary  O. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Thompson,  Richard 

Profession. 

August  29,  1860. 

Deceased. 

Ticknor,  Mrs.  Lettie  Oleson  Profession. 

October  31,  1851. 

Dismissed. 

Tiffany,  Mrs.  Christina 

Letter. 

April  22,  1860. 

Dismissed. 

Titus,  Mrs.  Orpha  S. 

Profession. 

September  28,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Tomlinson,  Mrs.  P.  N. 

Letter. 

November  6,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Tomlinson,  William 

Letter. 

November  6,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Topliff,  Mrs.  Mary  W. 

Letter. 

March  5,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Topliff,  William  B. 

Profession. 

September  6,  1859. 

Dismissed. 

Tower,  Miss  Adelaide 

Letter. 

June  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Tower,  Mrs.  Hannah  L. 

Profession. 

June  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Tower,  Samuel  L. 

Profession. 

June  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Towne,  Henry  M. 

Letter. 

April  27,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Towne,  Mrs.  Laura  Caton 

Letter. 

July  7.  1876. 

Deceased. 

Toynbee,  Mrs.  Lizzie  O. 

Profession. 

November  28,  1888. 

Dismissed. 

Trowbridge,  Mrs.  Alice  L. 

Letter. 

November  3,  1867. 

Dismissed. 

Tuttle,  Mrs.  Charlotte  L. 

Profession. 

June  7,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Tuttle,  Mrs.  Sarah 

Profession. 

May  3,  1850. 

Deceased. 

Tyler,  Elmer 

Letter. 

November  2,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

204 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Tyler,  Mrs.  Elmer 

Letter. 

November  2,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Tyler,  Morgan  C. 

Profession. 

January  3,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Uhlrich,  Mrs.  Helen  R. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1865. 

Dismissed. 

Underwood,  Mrs.  Letitia 

Letter. 

January  3,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Vail,  Charles  A. 

Letter. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Vail,  Mrs.  Henrietta  N. 

Letter. 

June  26,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Vail,  Henry  S. 

Letter. 

April  30,  1875. 

Dismissed. 

Valentine,  Mrs.  John  R. 

Profession. 

November  3,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Van  Delinder,  Mrs.  Effie  M. 

Letter. 

November  28,  1888. 

Dismissed. 

Van  Derveer,  Frank  F. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Van  Derveer,  Mrs.  R.  E. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Van  Doren,  Mrs.  M.  A. 

Letter. 

February  25,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Van  Valkenburg,  John  T. 

Profession. 

April  30,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Van  Vliet,  Mrs.  Mary  S. 

Letter. 

November  27,  1889. 

Deceased. 

Van  Zant,  Bannatyne 

Letter. 

March  5,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Vining,  George  W. 

Profession. 

March  4,  1866. 

Dismissed. 

Voorhees,  Abraham 

Profession. 

May  4,  1855. 

Dismissed. 

Wadhams,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

Profession. 

October  30,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

Wadhams,  Seth 

Profession. 

April  29,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  C.  H. 

Profession. 

May  3,  1845. 

Dismissed. 

Wadsworth,  Daniel 

Letter. 

July  3,  1846. 

Dismissed. 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  Emily  W. 

Letter. 

July  i,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Wadsworth,  James 

Profession. 

August  30,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  M.  W. 

Letter. 

July  3,  1846. 

Deceased. 

Wadsworth,  Strong 

Letter. 

April  30,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Waite,  Frank  L. 

Profession. 

April  3,  1885. 

Deceased. 

Waite,  Mrs.  Lue  A. 

Letter. 

April  3,  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Waite,  H.F. 

Letter. 

September  3,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Waite,  Mrs.  Jane  E. 

Letter. 

August  31,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Waite,  Mrs.  Martha 

Letter. 

September  3,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Walker,  Mrs.  Alice 

Letter. 

May  2,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Walker,  Mrs.  Sarah  P.  H. 

Letter. 

February  28,  1851. 

Deceased. 

Wallingford,  Alanson 

Letter. 

May  3,  1861, 

Deceased. 

Wallingford,  Henry  J. 

Letter. 

November  2,  1869. 

Dismissed. 

Wallingford,  Mrs.  Laura  H. 

Letter. 

May  3,  1872. 

Dismissed. 

Wallingford,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

November  2,  1869. 

Dismissed. 

Ward,  George  L. 

Letter. 

June  29,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Ward,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Letter. 

October  25,  1852. 

Dismissed. 

Ward,  Samuel  D. 

Letter. 

December  23,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Ward,  Thomas  W. 

Profession. 

October  21,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Ware,  J.  Herbert 

Profession. 

January  5,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Ware,  Mrs.  Louisa  M. 

Profession. 

January  5,  1887. 

Dismissed. 

Warner,  Porter 

Profession. 

April  23,  1858. 

Dismissed. 

Warner,  Seth  P. 

Letter. 

March  4,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

NAMES   OF   MEMBERS. 


205 


Names.  How  admitted. 

Warner,  Mrs.  Seth  P.  Letter. 

Waterman,  Mrs.  Helen  Letter. 

Waterman,  Henry  D.  Letter. 

Watson,  Hiram  A.  Letter. 

Watson,  John  R.  Letter. 

Watson,  Mrs.  Margaret  Letter. 

Watt,  Mrs.  Susan  Profession. 

Webster,  Mrs.  Ann  E.  Letter. 

Weed,  Mrs.  Caroline  N.  D.  Letter. 

Weed,  Miss  Caroline  Profession. 

Weeks,  Miss  Elizabeth  P.  Letter. 

Welling,  Mrs.  Charlotte  P.  Letter. 

Welling,  J.  C.  Letter. 

Wells,  Miss  Abigail  G.  Letter. 

Wells,  John  H.  Profession. 

Wentworth,  John  T.  Letter. 

Wentworth,  Mrs.  John  T.  Letter. 

Wessencraft,  Mrs.  Jane  Letter. 

Weston,  Miss  Ellen  L.  Profession. 

Weston,  Mrs.  Sophia  D.  Profession. 

Whatley,  Mrs.  Caroline  Letter. 

Whatley,  Eli  Letter. 

Wheaton,  Mrs.  Sarah  M.  Profession. 

Wheelock,  Edwin  D.  Letter. 

Wheelock,  Mrs.  Harriet  S.  Letter. 

Wheelock,  Henry  B.  Profession. 

Wheldon,  Mrs.  Delia  M.  Profession. 

Whipple,  D.  B.  Letter. 

Whit  comb,  Lewis  E:  Letter. 

Whiting,  Samuel  B.  Profession. 
Whittlesey,  Mrs.  Emma  W.  Letter. 

Wicker,  Charles  G.  Letter. 

Wicker,  Mrs.  Roxana  Letter. 

Wight,  Ambrose  S.  Letter. 

Wight,  Mrs.  Caroline  E.  Letter. 

Wight,  J.  Ambrose  Letter. 

Wilcox,  Albert  B.  Profession. 

Wilcox,  Edward  Profession. 

Wilcox,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Letter. 

Wilkinson,  Miss  Esther  Profession. 

Willard,  Mrs.  Helen  E.  Letter. 

Willard,  Sylvester  Letter. 

Williams,  Edward  M.  Profession. 

Williams,  John  C.  Letter. 


When  admitted.  Remarks. 

March  4,  1853.  Dismissed. 

October  31,  1855.  Dismissed. 

October  31.  1855.  Dismissed. 

1879.  Dismissed. 

May  29,  1889.  Dismissed. 

March  2,  1877.  Deceased. 

January  4,  1878.  Dismissed. 

June  i,  1842.  Dismissed. 

December  27,  1847.  Dismissed. 

April  26,  1852.  Dismissed. 

September  18,  1871.  Dismissed. 

March  5,  1875.  Dismissed. 

May  5,  1875.  Dismissed. 

December  28,  1870.  Deceased. 

July  2,  1847.  Dismissed. 

March  4,  1853.  Dismissed. 

March  4,  1853.  Dismissed. 

January  3,  1843.  Deceased. 

April  i,  1885.  Dismissed. 

June  29,  1864.  Dismissed. 

December  29,  1851.  Deceased. 

June  25,  1852.  Deceased. 

July  i,  1864.  Dismissed, 

February  24,  1890.  Dismissed. 

February  24,  1890.  Dismissed. 

March  2,  1877.  Dismissed. 

November  3,  1867.  Dismissed. 

July  2,  1880.  Dismissed. 

May  3,  1854.  Dismissed. 

October  15,  1842.  Deceased. 

February  6,  1870.  Dismissed. 

March  i,  1865.  Deceased. 

January  6,  1844.  Deceased. 

June  28,  1865.  Dismissed. 

October  25,  1843.  Dismissed. 
October  28.  1843.  Ordained  to  Miniitry 

April  30,  1855.  Dismissed. 

April  26,  1852.  Dismissed. 

November  3,  1876.  Deceased. 

October,  1861.  Deceased. 

December  30,  1857.  Deceased. 

June  i,  1842.  Deceased. 

April  30,  1852.  Dismissed. 

June  i,  1842.  Deceased. 


206 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Names.                       How  admitted. 

When  admitted. 

Remarks. 

Williams,  Mrs.  John  C. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Williams,  Mrs.  Mary 

Letter. 

February  25,  1868. 

Dismissed. 

Williams,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Profession. 

November  3,  1876. 

Deceased. 

Williams,  Stephen  B. 

Letter. 

December  7,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Williams,  Mrs.  Susan  S. 

Letter. 

December  7,  1856. 

Dismissed. 

Willing,  Mrs.  Frances 

Profession. 

June  29,  1864. 

Dismissed. 

Willing,  Henry  J. 

Profession. 

March  4,  1853. 

Dismissed. 

Willmore,  John 

Letter. 

January  12,  1877. 

Dismissed. 

Wilson,  Mrs.  Agnes 

Letter. 

August  6,  1842. 

Dismissed. 

Wilson,  Mrs.  Clara  J. 

Letter. 

March  28,  1883. 

Dismissed. 

Wilson,  Mrs.  Martha 

Profession. 

May  3,  1857. 

Dismissed. 

Wilson,  Robert  G. 

Profession. 

April  I,  1885. 

Dismissed. 

Windett,  Mrs.  Marcia 

Letter. 

August  25,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Wiseman,  James 

Letter. 

November  22,  1882. 

Dismissed. 

Wishard,  Mrs.  Eva  Fancher 

Letter. 

January  I,  1888. 

Dismissed. 

Wishard,  Luther  D. 

Letter. 

January  i,  1888. 

Dismissed. 

Withers,  Mrs.  Nony 

Letter. 

April  28,  1866. 

Deceased. 

Withrow,  James 

Letter. 

June  30,  1848. 

Dismissed. 

Woelfner,  Miss  Emily 

Profession. 

February  I,  1888. 

Dismissed. 

Wright,  Daniel  P. 

Letter. 

October  30,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Wright,  Miss  Frances  S. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Wright,  Henry 

Profession. 

May  3,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Wright,  Mrs.  Jessie  Wilkes 

Letter. 

May  3,  1878. 

Dismissed. 

Wright,  Mrs.  Joanna  H. 

Letter. 

June  25,  1852. 

Deceased. 

Wright,  Mrs.  John 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Wright,  John  S. 

Letter. 

June  i,  1842. 

Deceased. 

Wright,  Lieut.-Col.  Joseph  C. 

Profession. 

April  23,  1858. 

Deceased. 

Wykoff,  Miss  Anna 

Letter. 

January  4,  1863. 

Deceased. 

Woodworth,  H.  P. 

Letter. 

December  31,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Wood  worth,  Mrs.  M.  J. 

Letter. 

December  31,  1844. 

Dismissed. 

Wood,  Mrs.  Margaret  O. 

Profession. 

April  30,  1855. 

Dismissed- 

Wurts,  Alfred  P. 

Letter. 

October  25,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Wurts,  Mrs.  A.  P. 

Letter. 

October  25,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Wurts,  Maurice  A. 

Letter. 

October  21,  1843. 

Dismissed. 

Yoe,  Mrs.  Catharine  A. 

Profession. 

April  19,  1847. 

Dismissed. 

Yoe,  Lucien  G. 

Profession. 

May  8,  1863. 

Dismissed. 

Yoe,  Peter  L. 

Profession. 

March  I,  1850. 

Dismissed. 

Young,  Mrs.  Belle  M. 

Letter. 

September  12,  1879. 

Dismissed. 

Young,  Mrs.  Cornelia. 

Letter. 

February  6,  1870. 

Dismissed. 

AN  ACCOUNT 


CELEBRATION    OF    THE    FIFTIETH   ANNIVER- 
SARY   OF    THE    ORGANIZATION    OF    THE 
SECOND    PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH 
OF    CHICAGO. 


JUNE  19-22,  1892. 


FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY. 


At  a  meeting  held  September  28,  1891,  the  Session 
unanimously  and  heartily  agreed  that  jubilee  services 
should  be  held  to  celebrate  the  semi-centennial  anni- 
versary of  the  organization  of  the  church,  occurring 
June  i,  1892.  They  afterwards  appointed  an  Execu- 
tive Committee  to  prepare  a  suitable  programme, 
designate  the  necessary  special  committees,  and  have 
a  general  superintendence  of  the  exercises.  This 
Executive  Committee  was  constituted  as  follows  : 

The  Pastor;  Henry  P.  Merriman  and  John  C. 
Grant,  Elders;  George  W.  Cass  and  Frederick  M. 
Steele,  Deacons ;  Norman  Williams  and  Huntington 
W.  Jackson,  Trustees ;  and  Eugene  S.  Pike  and 
Allison  V.  Armour,  representing  the  congregation  at 
large.  George  W.  Cass  acted  as  its  Secretary. 

For  various  reasons,  and  especially  because  the 
pastor  had  been  appointed  a  Commissioner  to  the 
General  Assembly  which  met  in  Portland,  Oregon, 
May  19,  the  Committee  decided  that  the  celebration 
should  be  postponed  until  June  19-22.  They  ap- 
pointed the  various  special  committees  as  follows : 

On  Exercises :  The  Pastor  and  Messrs.  Turlington 
W.  Harvey,  A.  M.  Turner  and  Ira  W.  Allen,  Jr.;  on 
Entertainment:  Messrs.  H.  P.  Merriman,  Erastus 
Foote,  B.  W.  Thomas,  Thomas  Dent,  Kirk  Hawes,  A.  J. 
Averell,  Albert  Keep,  George  C.  Benton,  A.  G.  Petti- 
bone  and  S.  D.  Ward ;  on  Reception :  Huntington  W. 

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Jackson,  Kirk  Hawes,  Charles  S.  Holt,  E.  Wyllys 
Andrews,  Turlington  W.  Harvey,  Mrs.  Peter  Page, 
Mrs.  John  S.  Gould,  Mrs.  Robert  B.  Crouch,  Mrs. 
R.  R.  Cable,  Mrs.  Edward  Ely,  Mrs.  Henry  M.  Rals- 
ton, Mrs.  T.  S.  Hoyne,  Mrs.  Charles  Steele,  Mrs. 
Joseph  Matteson,  Mrs.  Helen  E.  Henderson,  Mrs. 
William  A.  Giles,  Miss  Tirza  Benton,  Miss  Virginia 
Dunham  and  Miss  Florence  Pullman ;  on  Decorations: 
Arthur  J.  Caton,  Pierrepont  Isham,  William  F.  Hunt, 
George  Bass,  Ira  W.  Allen,  Jr.,  Howard  Henderson, 
Uri  Curtis,  Mrs.  John  M.  Clark,  Mrs.  [Theodore  A. 
Shaw,  Mrs.  T.  W.  Harvey,  Mrs.  Charles  P.  Kellogg, 
Mrs.  Granger  Farwell,  Mrs.  George  W.  Cass,  Mrs. 
Thomas  H.  Bellas,  Miss  Lizzie  Isham  and  Miss  Laura 
Williams;  on  Music:  John  S.  Gould,  Edward  G. 
Mason,  Thomas  H.  Bellas,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Reid,  Miss 
Fannie  Gould,  Miss  Belle  Gray  and  Miss  Alice  Page ; 
on  Finance :  William  H.  Reid,  Eugene  S.  Pike,  O.  S. 
A.  Sprague,  Norman  B.  Ream,  John  M.  Clark,  Hugh 
McBirney,  Granger  Farwell,  William  T.  Baker  and 
Thomas  Murdoch ;  on  Correspondence :  S.  Lockwood 
Brown,  Henry  M.  Ralston,  Mrs.  Charles  S.  Holt,  Miss 
Virginia  Dunham,  Miss  Fannie  Gould,  Miss  Belle 
Gray  and  Miss  Annie  B.  Lawrence ;  on  Printing  : 
John  C.  Grant,  Henry  M.  Ralston,  Edward  G.  Mason, 
William  F.  Hunt,  John  C.  Everett  and  George  W. 
Cass. 

There  was  also  appointed  a  Committee  on  Invita- 
tions, made  up  chiefly  of  representatives  of  those  who 
had  been  in  the  church  during  at  least  some  part  of 
all  three  of  the  pastorates  in  its  history.  The  names 


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211 


of  its  members  were  engraved  on  the  invitations,  as 
follows : 

COMMITTEE  ON   INVITATION. 
MR.  T.  B.  CARTER,  Chairman. 


Mrs.  George  Armour. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Edmund  Andrews. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  J.  Averell. 

Mrs.  Oscar  F.  Avery. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  M.  Baker. 

Mrs.  Uri  Balcom. 

Mrs.  E.  A.  Ballard. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  C.  Benton. 

Mrs.  John  Barker. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  B.  Blackstone. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Blair. 

Dr.  Jonathan  A.  Brooks. 

Mrs.  William  Bross. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  Lockwood  Brown. 

Mrs.  Thomas  Burch. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Dean  Caton. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  M.  Clark. 

Mr.  S.  B.  Cobb. 

Mrs.  Ira  Couch. 

Mrs.  James  Couch. 

Mrs.  Frederick  Crumbaugh. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  H.  Davis. 

Mrs.  E.  W.  Densmore. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Dent. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  H.  Dunham. 

Mrs.  Henry  F.  Eames. 

Mrs.  Edward  Ely. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Erastus  Foote. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  S.  Gould. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  R.  Gray. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  D.  Gray. 

Mrs.  E.  H.  Hadduck. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kirk  Hawes. 


Mrs.  Helen  E.  Henderson. 

Mrs.  L.  A.  Herrick. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  T.  S.  Hoyne. 

Miss  Clara  Hunt. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  S.  Isham. 

Mrs.  Norman  B.  Judd. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Keep. 

Mrs.  Charles  P.  Kellogg. 

Mrs.  Mary  S.  Lawrence. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  G.  Mason. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Matteson. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  H.  P.  Merriman. 

Mr.  Thomas  Murdoch. 

Mrs.  Peter  Page.' 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  W.  Patterson,  Jr. 

Mrs.  Sophia  A.  Perry. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eugene  S.  Pike. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  M.  Pullman. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  M.  Ralston. 

Mrs.  Leander  Read. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Reid. 

Mrs.  H.  M.  Rockwell. 

Mrs.  Mary  C.  Sanger. 

Mr.  and  Mrs  Theodore  A.  Shaw. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Wirt  Smith. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H.  Starkweather. 

Mrs.  George  Steel. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  W.  Thomas. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  D.  Ward. 

Mrs.  Charles  G.  Wicker. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Norman  Williams. 

Mrs.  Mary  J.  Willing. 

GEORGE  W.  CASS,  Secretary, 

100  Washington  Street. 


The  invitations,  sent  out  to  about  fourteen  hundred 


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of  the  friends  and  former  members  of  the  congrega- 
tions, were  in  the  subjoined  form  : 

1842.  1892. 

The  Second   Presbyterian  Church 
of  Chicago 

cordially  invites  you  to  attend  the 
Semi-Centennial  Celebration 

of  its  organization,  to  be  held  on  the 
nineteenth,  twentieth,  twenty-first 
and  twenty-second  days  of  June, 

one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety- two. 

With  these  invitations  was  enclosed  a  card  giving 
the  "  Order  of  Exercises  "  during  the  four  days  of  the 
celebration,  as  follows  in  this  account. 

The  attendance  of  former  members  of  the  congre- 
gation was  large  and  representative.  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Patterson  were  not  only  welcomed  but  reverenced  by 
all.  The  one  great  disappointment  was  the  necessary 
absence  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Gibson. 

The  auditorium  and  the  church  parlors  were  elab- 
orately decorated  with  flowers  and  plants,  and  pre- 
sented a  most  attractive  appearance.  But  the  most 
striking  and  significant  feature  of  the  decorations 
consisted  of  a  large  number  of  portraits  of  those  who 
had  formerly  been  prominent  in  the  life  of  the  church, 
many  of  whom  had  also  been  conspicuous  in  the 
founding  and  building  of  Chicago.  The  portraits  of 
Dr.  Patterson  and  Dr.  Gibson  hung  side  by  side  in 
front  of  the  pulpit. 


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213 


The  following  portraits  were  arranged  tastefully 
around  the  gallery : 


Mrs.  J.  C.  Williams, 
Asher  Carter, 
John  C,  Williams, 
Mrs.  William -Blair, 
William  Blair, 
Palmer  V.  Kellogg, 
Charles  P.  Kellogg, 
Robert  W.  Ralston, 
Dr.  Judson, 
Edwin  Hunt, 
Peter  Page, 
J.  W.  Forsythe, 
George  S.  Snow, 
D.  R.  Holt, 
George  Manierre, 
Mrs.  Enos  Ayres, 
Zuinglius  Grover, 


Cyrus  F.  Hill, 
Robert  Forsythe, 
S.  P.  Warner, 
Oscar  F.  Avery, 
Richard  Ely, 
Mrs.  Mary  Ely, 
Mrs.  S.  B.  Cobb, 
John  P.  Chapin, 
John  Wentworth, 
Mrs.  Mark  Skinner, 
Mark  Skinner, 
B.  W.  Raymond, 
Mrs.  William  H.  Brown, 
William  H.  Brown, 
Dr.  Patterson, 
Dr.  Gibson. 


JUBILEE  SERVICES.     FIRST  DAY,  SUNDAY,  JUNE  19,  1892. 


MORNING   WORSHIP. 


The  pulpit  was  occupied  by  Dr.  Patterson  and  the 
Pastor.  The  organist  was  A.  F.  McCarrell. 

The  Choir  consisted  of  Mrs.  J.  A.  Farwell,  soprano ; 
Mrs.  Annie  Rommeiss  Thacker,  contralto ;  Robert 
T.  Howard,  tenor,  and  John  M.  Hubbard,  bass. 
Following  is  the  order  of  service : 


1.  Organ  Prelude — O  Sanctissime. 

2.  Choir  Voluntary — O  Give  Thanks. 

3.  Invocation  by  the  Pastor. 


Lux 
Sydenham 


214  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

4.  Doxology  :  "  Praise  God  from  Whom  all  Blessings  Flow." 

5.  Scripture  Lesson.     Romans  8. 

6.  Anthem  by  the  Choir,  "  Consider  and  Hear."       -         -        Pflengler 

7.  Responsive  Reading.     Zephaniah  iii.    14-20  ;   Isaiah  xliv.  1-4 ;  xliii. 

4,  and  selected  verses. 

8.  Gloria  Patri. 

9.  Prayer  by  Dr.  Patterson. 

10.  Offering.    Offertory  Duet :   "Blessed  Savior."     ...        Nevin 

By  Mrs*.  Farwell  and  Mrs.  Thacker. 
1 1     Historical  Sermon  by  the  Pastor. 

12.  Memorial  Hymn,  written  by  Erastus  Foote,  Esq. 

13.  Prayer  and  Benediction  by  the  Pastor. 

14.  Organ  Postlude,  March  D.         -    •'  -  -  "      -        -        -        Mendelssohn 

The  Prayer  of  Thanksgiving  and  Consecration, 
led  by  Rev.  R.  W.  Patterson,  D.D.: 

O  God,  our  Father,  we  bless  Thee  that  we  may 
come  unto  Thee  as  children  to  a  father,  and  that  we 
may  all  claim  sonship  with  Thee.  We  thank  Thee 
for  the  gift  of  Thy  Son  Jesus  Christ  in  whom  we 
trust  and  through  whom  we  may  have  comfort  and 
hope.  We  bless  Thee  for  all  the  exceedingly  great 
and  precious  promises  that  are  given  to  us  in  the 
Gospel  of  Thy  Son.  We  thank  Thee  that  as  our 
fathers  trusted  in  Thee,  so  may  we  trust  in  Thee. 
We  bless  Thee  that  in  all  the  days  of  our  life  Thou 
art  near  to  us.  O  God,  we  bless  Thee  for  Thy  good 
providence  towards  us  in  years  that  are  past.  We 
bless  Thee  that  we  are  brought  together  here  this 
day  under  circumstances  of  peculiar  interest.  We 
now  come  to  Thee  on  this  Fiftieth  Anniversary  of 
the  organization  of  this  church  to  commemorate  Thy 
goodness  to  us,  and  to  recognize  Thy  mercy  which 
has  been  ever  unchanged. 

We   thank  Thee  that  Thou  hast  been  with  this 


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church  in  all  its  history,  that  Thou  hast  guarded 
its  interests,  and  in  times  of  discouragement  and 
trial  that  Thou  hast  been  with  our  fathers  and  moth- 
ers who  have  gone  home  to  their  rest.  Thou  hast 
been  with  their  children,  and  now  with  their  chil- 
dren's children. 

We  come  to  Thee  this  day  asking  that  Thou  wilt 
bestow  Thy  special  blessing  upon  this  occasion. 
Help  us  to  recognize  all  that  Thou  hast  done  for  us, 
and  help  us  renewedly  to  cast  our  care  upon  Thee,  to 
entrust  all  our  interests  in  Thy  hand.  We  thank 
Thee,  gracious  Father,  that  Thou  hast  been  pleased 
to  protect  this  church  and  to  keep  it  from  the  evils  of 
the  world  in  such  great  measure.  We  thank  Thee 
for  its  continuous  development  and  large  hope.  We 
thank  Thee  for  the  examples  that  have  been  here  set 
for  Thy  people,  for  the  influences  that  have  been 
exercised,  for  the  power  that  is  still  exercised  for 
good.  We  thank  Thee  that  Thou  hast  been  pleased 
to  confer  upon  Thy  people  many  temporal  blessings 
together  with  the  spiritual  blessings  which  Thou 
hast  bestowed. 

We  come  to  Thee  asking  that  Thou  now  wilt  be 
very  near  to  us  in  the  exercises  of  this  occasion ; 
that  Thou  wilt  be  with  us  this  day ;  that  Thou  wilt 
make  us  conscious  of  Thy  presence,  and  help  us  to 
participate  in  the  communion  of  saints  and  to  recog- 
nize Thy  presence,  believing  that  Thou  art  near  to 
us,  and  that  Thou  art  ready  to  bless  us  still  as  Thou 
hast  in  times  that  are  past.  We  pray  Thee  that 
Thou  wilt  bestow  Thy  grace  upon  all  the  services 


2l6  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

connected  with  this  church,  upon  the  pastor,  upon  the 
officers  of  the  church,  upon  all  its  membership,  upon 
the  children  of  the  church.  Be  Thou  very  gracious 
to  every  family.  May  all  walk  before  Thee  in  sim- 
plicity of  heart,  in  trueness  of  faith.  We  pray  Thee 
to  pour  out  Thy  Spirit  upon  this  people  as  Thou  hast 
done  in  times  that  are  past,  and  even  more  abund- 
antly. May  it  be  seen  here  that  Thou  art  God  in 
the  midst  of  Thy  people,  that  Jesus  Christ  doth  still 
fulfill  his  promises  to  his  followers.  And  wilt  Thou, 
gracious  Father,  grant  the  influences  of  the  Divine 
Spirit  to  every  one  who  is  called  to  work  in  this 
church,  fitting  every  one  for  the  labors  which  Thou 
hast  required  and  set  forth  to  be  done,  and  may  Thy 
Kingdom  come  in  the  midst  of  us  more  and  more. 
May  the  benevolences  of  this  church  be  developed 
more  and  more.  May  more  be  done  for  the  spread  of 
Thy  Gospel  by  the  instrumentality  of  this  people, 
and  wilt  Thou  help  us  so  to  follow  those  who  have 
gone  home  to  their  rest  that  when  we  shall  come 
to  the  end  of  our  earthly  course,  it  may  be  said  to 
every  one  of  us,  "  Well  done,  good  and  faithful  ser- 
vant." 

Father,  wilt  Thou  hear  our  supplication ;  wilt 
Thou  blot  out  our  sins ;  wilt  Thou  lift  us  up  more 
and  more  and  cause  us  to  rejoice  more  and  more  in 
the  blessedness  of  Thy  promises  to  us. 

We  ask  all  in  the  name  and  for  the  sake  of  our 
blessed  Savior  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  to  whom  with 
the  Father  and  the  Eternal  Spirit  .we  will  ascribe 
everlasting  praise.  Amen. 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  2iy 

FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY  SERMON. 

BY  THE  PASTOR,   REV.  SIMON  J.   M'PHERSON,  D.D. 

Lev.  25  :  1 1.     "A  jubilee  shall  that  fiftieth  year  be  unto  YOU." 

Half  a  century  !  A  golden  cycle !  A  Sabbath  of 
sabbatic  years  !  Equivalent  in  modern  ages  to  a  gen- 
eration and  a  half!  So  long  a  period,  however  tran- 
sitory it  may  seem  to  the  immortals,  must  always 
make  an  impressive  retrospect  to  those  whose  average 
lifetime  is  hardly  more  than  thirty  years,  and  especi- 
ally to  those  whose  era  itself  is  young  and  whose 
particular  type  of  society  is  still  in  its  beginnings. 
Change,  movement,  progress  is  the  universal  law  of 
life.  But  usually  the  most  obvious  and  striking 
manifestations  of  this  law  appear  in  revolutionary 
epochs,  and  obtain  appreciative  measurement  long 
after  they  have  ceased.  We  do  not  greatly  wonder 
at  the  transformations  wrought  by  the  Bxodus  or  the 
Exile,  by  the  Reformation,  or  the  American  and 
French  Revolutions,  for  they  were  accompanied  by 
upheaval  and  convulsion,  and,  having  been  carried 
through  to  the  consummation,  they  lie  completed 
behind  us  to  be  viewed  in  their  entirety.  Rare,  in- 
deed, however,  has  the  half  century  been,  no  matter 
what  its  vicissitudes  or  antiquity,  which  has  revealed 
a  change  so  prodigious  as  that  which  in  spite  of  two 
great  national  wars  and  two  disastrous  local  confla- 
grations, has  quietly  and  gradually  developed  during 
the  fifty  years  since  our  church  was  organized,  June 
i,  1842.  In  the  evolution  of  positive  excellences  we 
must  look  for  a  parallel  in  the  times  of  Solomon, 


2l8  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

Pericles  and  Augustus  Caesar.  A  superior  we  shall 
hardly  find  outside  of  the  regenerating  era  of  our 
Lord's  advent,  the  reservoir  of  all  preceding  history 
and  the  fountain  head  of  all  following  transmuta- 
tions. Yet  in  respect  to  outward  and  material  devel- 
opment of  the  body  into  which  God  is  now  breathing 
the  soul  of  civilization,  even  those  ages  fell  far  behind 
our  own. 

We  need  not  attempt  the  impossible  task  of  re- 
viewing universal  history,  which  has  given  to  us  a 
new,  larger  and  richer  world,  in  order  to  discover  how 
great  a  privilege  it  has  been  to  live  in  this  latest  cal- 
endar of  time.  A  few  glimpses  of  our  own  country 
and  city,  upon  which  the  eyes  of  the  world  are  set, 
will  sufficiently  accentuate  our  birthright  benefits 
and  obligations. 

Fifty  years  have  brought  our  country  into  the 
vanguard  of  nations.  By  the  annexation  of  Texas 
in  1845,  tne  Oregon  treaty  of  1846  inspired  by  the 
heroic  missionary  Whitman,  the  treaty  of  Guadalupe 
Hidalgo  in  1848,  and  the  Gadsden  purchase  of  1853, 
not  to  mention  the  acquisition  of  Alaska,  our  national 
area  was  increased  almost  one-half.  In  actual  prod- 
ucts as  well  as  in  natural  resources  we  have  become 
the  richest  country  on  the  globe.  Since  1845,  eigh- 
teen of  our  forty-four  states  have  been  admitted  into 
the  Union.  Our  population  has  grown  from  about 
eighteen  millions  in  1842  to  quite  sixty-five  millions 
in  1892 — an  increase  of  360  per  cent.  A  half  century 
ago  barely  9  per  cent  of  our  people  lived  in  cities ; 
now  a  full  30  per  cent  are  urban  residents.  The 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY. 


average  great  American  city  has  40  per  cent  of  for- 
eign-born inhabitants,  representing  nearly  forty  dis- 
tinct nationalities.  In  1842,  steam  railroads  had  been 
known  in  the  country  barely  a  dozen  years,  and  there 
were  scarcely  more  than  4,000  miles  of  iron  rails  laid; 
but  now  we  have  an  aggregate  of  over  150,000  miles, 
nearly  as  many  as  all  the  world  besides.  In  1842, 
the  practical  use  of  Morse's  electric  telegraph  was 
still  two  years  in  the  future  ;  and  the  utilization  of 
the  telephone  was  to  be  postponed  more  than  thirty 
years.  If  these  and  other  adaptations  of  steam  and 
electricity  were  to  be  taken  away  from  us  now,  the 
world  would  seem  to  go  back  a  thousand  years,  and 
our  business  and  social  life  would  be  instantly  demor- 
alized. 

But  it  is  in  the  great  Northwest,  of  which  Chicago 
is  the  acknowledged  metropolis,  that  this  develop- 
ment has  been  most  astonishing.  The  history  of 
this  growth  reads  like  a  story  out  of  the  "  Arabian 
Nights  "  ;  it  eclipses  many  of  the  marvels  of  ancient 
astrology  and  alchemy.  In  1842,  the  Pacific  coast 
was  practically  an  undiscovered  country.  Now  it 
has  a  population  equal  to  about  two-thirds  that  of  the 
whole  thirteen  original  states.  So  rapidly  is  it  mak- 
ing progress,  with  its  splendid  harbors,  wonderful 
mines,  lavish  soil,  and  alluring  varieties  of  climate, 
that  the  prior  settlement  of  the  New  England  States 
seems  providential,  lest  if  the  order  of  discovery  had 
been  reversed  they  should  never  have  been  settled  at 
all.  In  1842,  the  region  midway  between  the  Missis- 
sippi Valley  and  the  Pacific  Ocean  was  regarded  as 


220  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

being  either  an  inaccessible  series  of  gigantic  moun- 
tains or  the  great  American  desert,  but  now  it  is  a 
magnificent  empire  in  itself.  In  1842,  our  own  State 
of  Illinois  was  mostly  uncultivated,  with  a  population 
of  scarcely  more  than  500,000,  without  a  single  con- 
siderable city,  having  neither  canal  nor  railroad 
within  its  borders,  and  claiming  "  barely  an  infant 
existence  for  its  educational  and  eleemosynary  insti- 
tutions." But  now  it  can  boast  of  nearly  4,000,000 
inhabitants  and  over  100  cities,  of  some  14,000  miles 
of  railway,  of  agricultural  products,  manufactories 
and  commercial  interests  which  rival  those  of  many  a 
great  nation,  of  a  grand  system  of  public  schools,  col- 
leges, and  universities  surpassing  those  to  be  found 
in  New  Bngland  fifty  years  ago,  of  hundreds  of 
churches,  and  of  uncounted  humanitarian  institutions 
for  the  amelioration  of  every  form  of  suffering  and 
misfortune. 

With  regard  to  the  chief  marvel  of  all  let  me 
quote  from  Dr.  Patterson's  twenty-fifth  anniversary 
sermon :  "  Our  own  city  in  1842  was  [only  a  large 
village  of  6,000  inhabitants,  having  but  few  perma- 
nent buildings  either  for  residence  or  business.  Its 
manufactures  were  scarcely  worthy  of  mention ;  its 
trade  consisted  almost  entirely  in  the  exchange  of 
goods  for  the  most  ordinary  agricultural  productions 
brought  to  the  city  in  large  wagons,  commonly  called 
'  prairie  schooners ' ;  its  streets,  all  unpaved,  were 
almost  impassable  during  the  spring  months,  while 
the  sidewalks  were  generally  two  or  three  feet  wide, 
and  made  of  board  laid  lengthwise ;  its  stores  and 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  221 

families  depended  wholly  upon  lamps  or  candles  for 
light,  and  were  supplied  with  water  chiefly  from  the 
lake  and  by  means  of  rude  vehicles  styled  '  water- 
carts.'  It  had  almost  no  public  schools,  no  asylums 
or  homes  for  the  orphan  and  the  friendless,  no 
literary  associations  or  general  libraries.  Its  com- 
munication with  other  sections  of  the  country  was 
carried  on  entirely  by  stages,  lumber  wagons,  and 
vessels  on  the  lake ;  and  for  years  after  that  date  a 
trip  to  New  York  and  back  could  not  be  accomplished 
in  less  than  two  or  three  weeks,  and  one  week  was 
hardly  long  enough  simply  to  go  to  St.  Louis  and 
return."  But  now  Chicago  has  a  population  approxi- 
mating 1,400,000  and  receives  every  month  an  addi- 
tion as  large  as  the  whole  city  was  in  1842.  Time 
utterly  fails  to  give  any  idea  of  the  march  of  its 
material  development.  No  man  knows,  or  can  know, 
this  city  accurately  and  fully.  Its  physical  evolu- 
tion is  without  a  precedent  in  the  annals  of  time. 

Moreover,  to  thoughtful  people  like  those  who 
have  maintained  such  churches  as  ours,  this  material 
development  is  not  so  much  a  matter  of  vaunting 
pride  as  it  is  an  opportunity  and  incentive  to  mold 
men  intellectually,  morally,  and  religiously.  This 
young  city  may  still  be  somewhat  crude ;  in  the 
nature  of  the  case  it  must  be  so.  But  the  higher  life 
is  by  no  means  ignored.  Indeed,  it  would  be  difficult 
to  name  a  city  with  a  larger  proportion  of  public- 
spirited  men  and  women,  who  give  devoted  and 
munificent  attention  to  the  interests  of  the  soul. 

Amidst  all  this  phenomenal  growth   and   enter- 


222  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

prise,  have  the  churches  of  Jesus  Christ  been  doing 
their  momentous  part?  Estimated  by  His  own 
supernal  standard  of  consecration,  they  certainly 
have  not  fulfilled  their  high  destiny;  but  measured 
by  the  simultaneous  lower  activities  of  men,  they 
need  not  fear  the  most  scrutinizing  comparisons.  In 
1842  the  ratio  of  evangelical  church  communicants  to 
the  population  in  the  country  at  large  was  just  about 
14  per  cent,  but  now  it  is  probably  22  per  cent.  In 
1842,  there  averaged,  the  country  over,  about  one 
evangelical  church  to  every  900  inhabitants ;  now 
there  is  one  for  each  500.  Our  own  denomination 
has  had  a  proportionate  growth,  especially  in  the 
Northwest.  In  1842,  west  of  the  Mississippi  and 
north  of  the  south  line  of  Wisconsin,  there  was  not  a 
single  church  in  connection  with  it.  Now  the  terri- 
tory beyond  these  limits  is  covered  by  some  nine 
synods,  having  nearly  1,300  ministers,  1,600  church 
organizations,  150,000  communicants  and  200,000 
Sunday-school  scholars.  In  1842,  Dr.  Patterson  tells 
us,  "  the  whole  of  Northern  Illinois  was  occupied  by 
two  presbyteries,  embracing  scarcely  a  dozen  minis- 
ters who  were  sincerely  attached  to  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  or  who  did  not  afterwards  withdraw  from  our 
connection."  Now,  that  same  section,  comprising 
less  than  half  of  the  present  Synod  of  Illinois  either 
in  area  or  in  numbers,  has  about  175  Presbyterian 
churches,  over  200  ministers  and  about  25,000  com- 
municants. 

Before  this  church  was  organized  fifty  years  ago, 
Chicago  had  only  four  evangelical  churches  and  no 


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mission  at  all.  But  to-day  we  have  nearly  three 
hundred  and  fifty  evangelical  churches  and  nearly 
sixty  evangelical  missions.  Counting  in  Roman 
Catholic  and  all  other  churches  and  missions,  we 
find  a  total  of  four  hundred  and  fifty.  Where  in 
1842  there  was  only  the  First  Presbyterian,  or  great 
Mother  Church,  Chicago  has  in  1892  forty  Presby- 
terian churches  and  twenty  Presbyterian  missions; 
and  our  growth  has  been  quite  eclipsed  by  that  of 
the  Congregationalists,  Methodists,  and  Lutherans. 
But  the  influence  of  these  churches,  our  own  among 
the  rest,  has  been  too  high  and  spiritual  for  any 
estimate  in  figures,  any  definition  in  words,  any  visi- 
ble representation  in  substantive  facts.  Their  chief 
function  has  been  to  inspire  the  ideals  and  to  stimu- 
late the  ethical  faculties  of  men.  This  function  can 
never  be  measured  until  their  beneficiaries  stand 
before  the  compelling  eyes  of  Omniscience  in  the 
awful  light  of  eternity. 

Of  the  mighty  changes  of  the  last  fifty  years  this 
church  has  borne  its  full  share.  Of  course,  its  imme- 
diate work  and  direct  influence  have  been  chiefly 
local.  But  on  account  of  its  metropolitan  position  in 
a  formative  period,  and  on  account  of  the  large  vitality 
and  vigorous  character  of  its  first  pastor  and  leading 
members,  its  secondary  influences  have  been  great 
and  far-reaching.  Only  by  bearing  in  mind  its  wide- 
spread relations  can  any  one  estimate  the  forces  which 
it  has  set  in  motion.  Its  weight  of  importance  has 
certainly  been  great  in  proportion  to  its  numbers. 
Originally  a  small  colony  from  the  First  Presbyterian 


224  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

Church,  it  began  with  only  twenty-six  members,  rep- 
resenting ten  families.  The  congregation  consisted 
at  first  of  about  one  hundred  souls,  and  the  Sabbath 
services  were  attended  by  only  seventy  or  eighty  per- 
sons. But  it  was  a  power  from  the  outset. 

The  reason  for  this  becomes  plain  when  one  finds 
in  this  short  list  of  charter  members  the  names  of 
such  men  as  William  H.  Brown,  Thomas  B.  Carter, 
John  W.  Hooker,  Flavel  Moseley,  Benjamin  W. 
Raymond,  Charles  R.  Starkweather,  Silvester  Willard, 
John  C.  Williams,  and  John  S.  Wright.  Associated 
with  these  in  the  congregation,  almost  from  the  first, 
were  such  men  as  Mark  Skinner,  Silas  B.  Cobb,  E.  H. 
Haddock,  Norman  B.  Judd,  and  Ira  Couch.  These 
founders,  with  the  original  pastor,  determined  the 
quality  of  our  church's  life,  and  we  all  owe  them  a 
debt  of  gratitude.  Several  of  their  descendants  and 
representatives  are  still  with  us,  but  of  the  original 
members  only  Mr.  Carter  and  Mrs.  Webster  survive, 
the  latter  an  esteemed  member  of  a  sister  church  and 
the  former  our  revered  and  beloved  senior  elder.  Of 
the  first  adherents  of  the  church  we  still  retain,  I 
think,  only  Mr.  Cobb,  who  has  just  made  so  splendid 
a  donation  to  the  new  Chicago  University,  and  Mrs. 
B.  H.  Haddock.  May  they  be  long  spared  in  health 
and  peace !  But  these  four,  with  our  dear  Dr.  Patter- 
son, remain  to  us  at  the  end  of  the  half  century. 
How  few  of  us  will  be  permitted  to  greet  the  centen- 
nial anniversary !  We  cannot  be  unmindful  of  our 
mortality.  Our  abiding  home  is  with  "the  church  of 
the  first  born  who  are  enrolled  in  heaven." 


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This  church  was  organized  by  a  committee  of  the 
Presbytery  of  Ottawa,  consisting  of  the  Rev.  George 
W.  Elliott  and  the  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  who  was  then 
the  pastor  of  the  First  Church.  That  church, 
although  only  nine  years  old,  was  already  about  four 
hundred  strong.  For  at  least  twenty-five  years  we 
have  been  fond  of  saying  in  our  manuals  that  the 
organization  of  the  Second  Church  "was  undertaken 
with  the  full  concurrence  of  the  session  and  principal 
members  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  and  its 
pastor,  .  .  .  for  the  simple  purpose  of  extending 
the  Redeemer's  kingdom  by  a  more  adequate  provis- 
ion for  the  future  moral  wants  of  the  rapidly-growing 
city."  That  was  undoubtedly  the  controlling  reason. 
No  antipathy  existed  at  the  beginning  between  these 
two  early  churches,  and  none  has  appeared  through- 
out their  history.  Their  church  buildings  have 
always  been  near  to  each  other.  Their  congregations 
have  always  been  socially  intimate.  Their  contempo- 
raneous pastors  have  always  been  friends.  So  it  is, 
and  so  it  ought  to  be.  If  my  own  personal  experi- 
ence may  be  accepted  as  a  standard,  it  would  require 
malignant  perversity  on  our  part  to  provoke  a  quarrel 
with  our  alma  mater.  Dr.  Barrows  is  one  of  the  most 
noble,  trustworthy,  and  comfortable  friends  that  I 
have  ever  had ;  and  I  take  pleasure  in  testifying  that 
there  is  a  very  sweet  and  wholesome  rendering  of  the 
sometimes  dubious  adage,  "Like  priest,  like  people." 

But,  in  addition  to  the  principal  motive,  tradition 
whispers  that  there  may  have  been  minor  reasons  for 
the  organization  of  this  church.  It  has  been  inti- 


226  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

mated,  for  instance,  that  those  who  emerged  from  the 
First  Church  to  form  the  Second  were  temperate  and 
conservative  on  certain  burning  questions  of  the  hour. 
Such  a  question  was  slavery,  which  had  already 
kindled  opposite  and  radical  opinions.  We  have  Dr. 
Patterson's  word  for  it  that  this  church  constantly 
maintained,  in  a  moderate  spirit,  "the  great  principles 
of  liberty  and  Christian  morality.  Ever  free  from 
any  taint  of  fanaticism  touching  these  subjects,  this 
people  stood  consistently  and  unitedly  for  freedom 
against  slavery,  and  for  our  beloved  country  and  our 
glorious  Union  against  all  open  and  covert  enemies, 
sacrificing  freely  when  the  call  came,  not  only  their 
material  resources,  but  the  best  blood  of  their  sons 
and  brothers  on  the  altar  of  a  self-forgetful  and  holy 
patriotism." 

I  have  sometimes  wondered  whether  the  disrup- 
tion of  the  denomination  in  1837  ^n^°  Old  and  New 
School  branches  could  have  had  any  bearing  on  the 
formation  of  this  church.  I  think  not.  For,  both  the 
First  and  the  Second  Church,  like  most  of  the  leading 
churches  in  Chicago,  were  New  School.  They  stood 
together,  where  Augustine  stood,  for  liberty  in  non- 
essentials,  and  they  advocated  a  comprehensive  rather 
than  a  uniform  code  of  thought  and  plan  of  organi- 
zation. That  old  division  seems  now,  at  a  distance  of 
fifty-five  years,  to  have  been  foolish  and  weakening, 
if  not  groundless.  Let  us  hope  and  pray  that  these 
two  neighbors,  with  all  our  churches,  will  continue  to 
demand  unity  only  in  essentials,  and  will  permit  no 


E.   H.  HADDOCK. 


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\ 

trivial  differences,  however  modern,  to  effect  another 
schism  in  our  denomination. 

A  coordinate  reason  for  establishing  this  church 
was  certainly  found  in  the  desire  to  have  the  Rev.  R. 
W.  Patterson  for  its  pastor.  In  the  summer  and  fall 
of  1840,  just  after  graduating  from  Lane  Theological 
Seminary,  he  had  supplied  the  pulpit  of  the  First 
Church.  The  gifts  of  the  young  minister  were 
recognized,  and  his  services  were  coveted.  At  any 
rate,  as  soon  as  the  Second  Church  was  organized,  he 
was  immediately  called  to  its  pulpit,  and  these  fifty 
years  bear  joyful  witness  to  the  aptness  of  that  first 
choice.  Chicago  and  Illinois  may  well  be  proud  of 
him.  Born  in  Tennessee,  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry, 
he  came  with  his  father's  family  in  his  early  boyhood 
to  the  southwestern  part  of  this  State,  where  he  grew 
to  manhood.  His  college  education  was  received  at 
Jacksonville.  Practically  the  whole  of  his  extraordi- 
nary career,  as  pastor,  ecclesiastical  leader,  college 
president,  theological  professor,  and  voluminous  writer 
for  the  press,  has  been  passed  in  this  Commonwealth. 
He  is  a  product  of  our  soil,  and  no  one  need  feel  mis- 
givings about  the  future  of  our  prairie  country,  a 
western  Holland  for  flatness,  so  long  as  it  can  prop- 
agate such  men  as  he.  His  influence  has  been  wide, 
powerful,  and  salutary. 

I  often  think,  as  I  look  at  him,  that  his  person, 
stalwart  yet  quiet  and  unobtrusive,  is  an  index  to  his 
character.  There  is  nothing  small  or  narrow  about 
him.  He  is  molded  on  a  large  scale.  His  striking 
characteristic  is  considerate  wisdom.  With  a  keen 


228  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

eye  for  the  fundamental  truths,  and  an  instinct  for 
keeping  them  in  the  foreground,  his  mind  and  heart 
are  ever  in  favor  of  the  utmost  liberty  with  regard  to 
incidental  and  secondary  matters  of  opinion.  Most 
serious  as  to  all  vital  concerns,  he  has  the  intuitive 
insight  and  the  sense  of  humor  to  discern  those  which 
are  not  important,  but  only  seem  so  to  dull  and  inanely 
solemn  brains,  and  therefore  he  possesses  the  art  to 
discover  easily  the  best  ways  to  the  best  ends.  He 
will  be  long  remembered,  and  I  am  sure  that  the  cen- 
tennial of  this  church  will  gladly  testify  to  his  benefi- 
cent influence.  But  as  he  is  to  me  at  once  a  father 
and  a  friend,  I  have  no  disposition  to  crown  him  with 
a  premature  obituary — premature,  if  God  hear  our 
prayers,  for  many  years  to  come. 

It  is  a  remarkable  fact  that  this  church  has  had 
only  three  pastors,  and  still  more  remarkable,  per- 
haps, that  they  are  all  living.  This  would  be  note- 
worthy anywhere,  and  in  the  West  it  is  almost 
unprecedented.  But  it  can  be  in  no  wise  invidious 
towards  my  great-hearted  predecessor,  Dr.  Gibson, 
who  was  here  only  six  years,  to  say  that  Dr.  Patter- 
son's impress  upon  our  church  has  been  much  the 
deepest  of  the  three.  From,  whatever  standpoint  I 
view  the  structure,  I  can  make  out  his  stamp  and 
image.  This  is  due  not  only  to  his  character,  but  also 
to  the  great  length  of  his  pastorate — thirty-two  years 
— and  to  his  touch  upon  its  plastic  and  constructive 
stages  of  growth.  Most  of  the  decisive  features  were 
given  to  the  church  during  his  ministry.  - 

For  example,  his  qualities  first  drew  to  it  a  class 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  22Q 

of  capable  minds,  who  have  been  controlling  through- 
out its  history,  and  have  secured  for  it  unusual 
weight  in  the  city  and  surrounding  country.  Very 
many  of  its  members  and  adherents  have  been  promi- 
nent in  the  various  important  councils  which  have 
given  shape  and  character  to  our  new  region.  Look 
around  you  at  these  representative  portraits,  and  you 
will  see  the  faces  of  some  of  the  makers  of  Chicago. 
Its  social  prestige,  too,  for  whatever  reason,  has  been 
uniformly  large.  Never,  since  the  days  of  Mrs.  B. 
W.  Raymond,  Mrs.  J.  C.  Williams  and  Mrs.  John 
Wright,  has  it  lacked  a  numerous  company  of  "  elect 
ladies  "  who  have  been  foremost  in  every  good  work. 
I  ascribe  it,  also,  principally  to  his  leverage  and  to 
that  of  his  like-minded  associates  that  the  life  of  this 
church  has  been  marked  by  steadiness,  conservatism 
and  permanence.  Its  enthusiasms  have  been  of  the 
quiet  and  deep-running  sort,  and  never  fitful  or 
spasmodic.  Its  cries  have  not  been  vociferous  in  the 
streets,  nor  has  its  influence  been  volatile.  This  has 
been  made  the  ground  of  occasional  criticism.  Eager 
souls  have  sometimes  felt  their  ardor  cooled  by  its 
even  tones  and  its  temperate  thoughtfulness.  But  if 
it  has  not  gone  forward  by  leaps  and  bounds,  it  has  at 
least  not  gone  backward.  Indeed,  it  has  kept  up 
through  the  long  years  its  constant  if  not  rapid  pace 
of  progress,  and  it  is  strong  and  deeply  hopeful  at 
this  hour.  While  it  needs  beware  of  every  degree  of 
self-complacency,  it  may  well  be  devoutly  grateful 
for  the  favoring  grace  of  God.  A  singular  and 
delightful  harmony  has  characterized  its  fellowship 


23O  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

from  the  first,  and  no  serious  difference  has  ever  dis- 
turbed it.  Its  officers  have  commonly  had  a  long 
tenure,  and  its  services  are  ever  decorous  and  devout, 
if  not  exciting.  For  so  long  a  time  as  fifty  years  this 
persistent  steadfastness  is  obviously  preferable  to 
oscillating  vehemence. 

It  was  during  Dr.  Patterson's  pastorate  that  all 
our  church  edifices  were  erected.  Worshiping  for  the 
first  three  months  in  "  the  City  Saloon  "  and  in  the 
Unitarian  church,  the  earliest  building  of  its  own,  a 
frame  structure  on  Randolph  street,  near  Clark,  was 
dedicated  in  September,  1842.  That  building,  twice 
enlarged,  was  occupied  till  January,  1851.  It  stands 
now  on  Prairie  avenue,  opposite  the  end  of  Sixteenth 
street,  and  is  used  as  a  railroad  station.  In  January > 
1851,  the  second  building,  a  beautiful  Gothic  edifice, 
80  by  no  feet,  known  over  the  country  as  "  The 
Spotted  Church,"  was  dedicated  at  the  corner  of 
Wabash  avenue  and  Washington  street.  It  was  used 
until  one  week  before  the  great  fire  of  1871,  which 
destroyed  it.  The  congregation  then  held  services  in 
what  was  then  the  Olivet  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Wabash  avenue  and  Fourteenth  street,  a  colony  of 
this  church,  until  the  present  building  was  entered  in 
January,  1874,  shortly  before  Dr.  Patterson  resigned 
to  become  a  professor  in  our  highly  prosperous  Mc- 
Cormick  Seminary.  This  edifice  was  for  some  years 
under  a  heavy  debt.  A  large  proportion  of  it  was  re- 
moved during  the  pastorate  of  Dr.  Gibson ;  and  the 
residue,  nearly  $40,000,  was  paid  during  the  first  year 
of  the  present  minister.  Its  tower,  and,  with  it,  the 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  23! 

building  itself,  was  finally  completed  in  the  summer 
of  1884,  by  the  munificence  of  Mrs.  George  Armour, 
who  erected  the  tower  as  a  memorial  to  her  husband, 
for  many  years  one  of  the  best  and  most  highly 
esteemed  elders  of  the  church. 

The  reference  to  Olivet  may  remind  us  that  this 
church,  true  to  the  example  and  spirit  of  that  from 
which  it  was  derived,  has  been  a  mother  of  churches 
in  the  city  and  vicinity.  The  first  colony  was  Olivet 
Presbyterian  Church,  organized  December  7,  1856, 
by  Dr.  Patterson,  with  twelve  members  received  from 
this  church,  It  originated  in  the  mission  work  un- 
dertaken by  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
of  the  Second  Church,  probably  the  first  in  the  city; 
it  was  planted  about  a  mile  south  of  the  present 
church  in  what  was  then  regarded  as  the  outskirts  of 
the  city,  and  its  first  pastor,  the  Rev.  J.  Ambrose 
Wight,  had  been  for  eight  years  an  elder  in  this 
church.  Another  pastor  was  the  late  Rev.  A.  Eddy. 
The  Rev.  Nelson  Millard,  D.D.,  who  is  now  pastor  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
and  the  Rev.  G.  P.  Nichols,  D.D.,  at  present  pastor  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Binghamton, 
N.  Y.,  also  supplied  its  pulpit  for  considerable  peri- 
ods. The  Rev.  Bradford  Y.  Averell,  a  gifted  and 
deeply  consecrated  man,  whom  God  translated  at  an 
early  age,  was  ordained  from  the  membership  of  Oli- 
vet and  elected  the  first  pastor  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  in  Hyde  Park,  of  this  city.  The  Rev. 
Ambrose  S.  Wight,  who  is  a  son  of  the  Rev.  J.  Am- 
brose Wight,  and  who  is  now  the  pastor  of  the  Pres- 


232  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

byterian  Church  of  Waynes  ville,  Illinois,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Olivet,  although  he  was  baptized  in  the  Second 
Church.  The  Rev.  Henry  C.  Granger,  rector  at 
present  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  Dixon,  Illinois, 
also  came  from  the  membership  of  Olivet.  Addi- 
tional sons  of  the  Second  Church,  now  in  the  minis- 
try, are  the  Rev.  W.  W.  Adams,  D.D.,  pastor  of 
the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts ;  Rev.  I.  W.  Hathaway,  D.D.,  pastor  of 
the  Westminster  Presbyterian  Church  of  Jersey  City, 
New  Jersey,  Rev.  Archibald  Durrie,  pastor  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Superior,  Wisconsin, 
and  the  Rev.  William  B.  Boomer,  a  foreign  mis- 
sionary of  our  denomination  in  Chilian,  Chili. 

The  Olivet  Church  maintained  its  separate  exist- 
ence until  September,  1871.  Just  before  the  great 
fire  it  united  with  this  church.  Many,  who  then 
returned,  are  still  office-bearers  or  members  with  us 
and  are  among  our  most  devoted,  efficient  and 
honored  helpers.  The  Westminster  Presbyterian 
Church  of  this  city,  which  was  organized  by  Dr. 
Patterson  in  the  parlors  of  Mr.  B.  W.  Thomas,  and 
which  was  after  some  years  merged  with  the  North 
Presbyterian  Church  into  the  present  Fourth  Church, 
was  chiefly  composed  of  a  colony  from  this  church. 
The  Lake  Forest  church,  whose  beautiful  house  of 
worship  was  constructed  of  stones  taken  from  the 
ruins  of  the  old  "  Spotted  Church,"  and  the  Immanuel 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago,  which  hopes  soon  to 
obtain  a  suitable  building  of  its  own,  may  both  be 
regarded  as  colonies  of  the  Second  Church.  Many  of 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  233 

the  former  members  of  our  church  to-day  hold  posi- 
tions of  trust  and  responsibility  and  exert  a  com- 
manding influence  in  various  other  churches.  God 
used  our  church  as  a  nursery  to  train  competent 
workers  for  Calvary  Church,  which,  after  the  fire,  was 
merged  into  the  First  Church,  for  the  Third,  Fourth, 
and  Hyde  Park  Presbyterian  and  the  New  England 
Congregational  Churches  of  this  city,  for  the  Ken- 
wood Evangelical  Church,  and  for  the  Evanston 
Presbyterian  Church.  These  and  still  other  churches 
are  all  praying  to-day,  with  Dr.  Stryker  of  the  Fourth 
Church,  that  these  holidays  of  memory  may  be  to 
us  all  holy  with  new  hope  and  strong  reanimated 
purpose. 

No  sermon  of  this  sort  can  fail  to  mention  the 
mission  schools  of  the  Second  Church.  The  earliest 
of  them,  the  first  mission  school  in  Chicago,  was 
organized  in  October,  1843,  ^Y  three  members  of  this 
church — Maurice  A.  Wurts,  who  afterwards  removed 
to  Philadelphia  and  became  Secretary  of  the  Amer- 
ican Sunday-School  Union ;  Mr.  B.  W.  Thomas,  and 
Gen.  S.  Lockwood  Brown,  who  are  still  with  us. 
Mr.  T.  B.  Carter,  Mr.  Henry  J.  Willing,  and  others 
were  long  and  honorably  identified  with  it.  The 
original  location  of  it  was  what  is  now  No.  269  East 
Kinzie  street.  Subsequently  it  occupied  several 
other  sites,  among  them  that  of  the  Northwestern 
passenger  depot  on  North  Wells  street.  This 
pioneer  school  has  been  successively  known  as  the 
Young  Men's  Mission,  the  Bethel  Mission,  the  Erie 
Street  Mission,  and  the  Howe  Street  Mission.  Now 


234  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

/     : — — ' 

it  is  called  Christ  Chapel,  with  a  beautiful  and 
capacious  building  erected  in  1887  by  the  Fourth 
Church,  by  which  for  years  past  it  has  been  mainly 
supported.  For  almost  forty-nine  years  the  doors  of 
this  mission  have  been  open  every  Sabbath  with  the 
single  exception  of  that  following  the  great  fire.  It 
is  now  more  flourishing  than  ever. 

A  second  mission  was  organized  by  Edward  Boyd 
and  other  members  of  this  church  in  1844.  Among 
its  early  superintendents  were  Mr.  D.  J.  Lake,  Mr.  S. 

D.  Ward,  Mr.   Henry  Johnson,  Mr.  James   E.   Pu- 
rington,  Mr.  T.  B.  Carter  and  the  self-denying  Rev. 

E.  F.  Dickinson.     It  was  first  known  as  the  State 
Street  Mission,  and  then  for  a  long  series  of  years  as 
the    Taylor   Street    Mission.     The    Burr    Mission, 
Wentworth  avenue  and    Twenty-third   street,    sup- 
ported by  the  Board  of  the  u  Home  for  the  Friend- 
less," out  of  a  fund  bequeathed  for  that  purpose  by 
Jonathan  Burr,  was  the  outgrowth  of  an  industrial 
school  which  'the  Rev.  E.  F.   Dickinson  started  on 
Taylor  street,  and  with  which  the  Taylor  Street  Mis- 
sion of  this  church  co-operated.     This  Burr  Mission, 
which  is  undenominational,  for  years  obtained  most 
of  its    teachers   and   its    admirable  superintendent, 
our   lamented  friend,  Robert  W.   Ralston,  from  the 
Second  Church.    But  the  lineal  successor  of  the  Tay- 
lor Street  Mission  is  our  own  Moseley  Mission,  whose 
building  was  erected  at  No.  2539  Calumet  avenue  in 
1876.     The  name  was  changed  in  honor  of  Flavel 
Moseley,  a  charter  member  of  our  church,  who  gave 
$10,000  to  our  trustees,  with  instructions  to  invest  it 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  235 

and  to  use  the  income  for  mission  work.  Its  work, 
conducted  by  a  devoted  band  from  the  Second  Church 
and  under  the  efficient  care,  pastoral  one  might  say, 
of  Miss  Fannie  Cundall,  is  prosperous  and  blessed. 
A  kindergarten  has  been  in  daily  session  there  for 
some  eight  or  nine  years,  and  by  the  generosity  of 
Mr.  W.  H.  Reid  an  addition,  in  memory  of  Eleanor 
Irwin  Reid,  has  been  made  to  the  building  for  its 
accommodation.  Our  only  regret  about  Moseley 
Mission  is  that  its  location  seems  to  prevent  its  devel- 
opment into  a  church. 

A  half  century  is  a  long  period  to  survey  in  a  sin- 
gle sermon,  and  I  have  no  time  to  review  in  detail 
the  splendid  pastorate  of  Dr.  Gibson.  When  he  came 
here  in  the  spring  of  1874  he  found  the  congregation 
strong  and  united  in  this  new  church  home.  The 
membership  amounted  to  just  over  480,  the  net  result 
of  1,224  accessions,  and  of  about  745  dismissions  and 
deaths.  The  officers,  as  usual,  were  able  and  earnest 
men.  The  income  for  church  purposes  was  nearly 
$14,000  a  year.  The  benevolence  during  the  first 
thirty-two  years  of  comparative  poverty,  which  was 
made  absolute  by  the  fire,  had  aggregated  $200,000. 
The  evangelical  graces  and  the  spiritual  life  of  the 
congregation  were  bright  and  vigorous.  The  only 
burden  was  a  debt  upon  the  building.  The  time  of 
harvest  was  fully  come. 

Dr.  Gibson  was  precisely  the  man  to  meet  the 
emergency.  Born  in  Scotland,  he  was  of  Presbyte- 
rian blood.  His  father  was  a  minister.  In  his  boy- 
hood his  character  and  gifts  had  attracted  the  atten- 


236  SECOND    PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

tion  of  Dr.  McCosh,  who  urged  his  father  that  he 
should  be  encouraged  to  enter  the  gospel  ministry. 
His  distinguished  career  as  a  student  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Toronto,  and  as  an  assistant  pastor  and  pro- 
fessor in  Montreal,  had  confirmed  the  promise  of  his 
early  days.  His  scholarship  was  rare  and  high,  but 
never  obtruded.  His  preaching  was  scriptural,  per- 
suasive and  full  of  unction.  Unselfish,  wann-hearted, 
born  to  be  a  friend,  and  instinct  with  the  humane 
and  compassionate  spirit  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  he 
was,  and  is,  an  almost  ideal  pastor.  Then  relatively 
young  in  years  and  perennially  young  in. impulses,  he 
specially  won  the  boys  and  girls,  the  young  men  and 
maidens  to  Christ,  the  common  Master.  It  is  not 
strange  that  the  recollections  of  him  are  sweet  or  that 
his  influence  was  a  benediction. 

The  church  Sunday-school  grew  largely  under  his 
ministry,  especially  during  the  superintendency  of 
his  friend,  Charles  P.  Kellogg.  The  young  people 
were  brought  out,  instructed  and  organized  for  work. 
The  income  and  benevolence  of  the  church  were 
stimulated  and  its  debt  reduced.  The  average  in- 
'come  of  the  church  for  current  expenses  and  for  the 
debt  was  about  $26,000  a  year.  Its  annual  benevo- 
lence was  a  little  over  $12,000.  The  membership 
increased  so  that  when  he  went  to  London  in  1880  it 
had  reached  about  780,  a  net  increase  in  the  six 
years  of  just  300.  The  total  additions  to  its  mem- 
bership was  by  letter  from  other  churches  over  240, 
or  forty  a  year  ;  and  by  confession  of  faith  over  250, 
or  forty-two  a  year.  The  latter  average,  however, 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  237 

is  considerably  increased  by  the  addition  in  1877  of 
over  100,  the  fruitage  of  the  great  revival  under  the 
leadership  of  Mr.  Moody.  The  average  by  conver- 
sion in  other  years  was  about  twenty-seven.  This, 
let  me  say  in  passing,  was  the  seventh  revival  which 
the  church  has  enjoyed;  the  others  occurred  in  1847, 
1850,  1852,  1855,  1858  and  1864. 

In  addition  to  Dr.  Gibson's  local  success  and  pop- 
ularity in  this  field,  his  praise  was  in  all  the  churches. 
His  services  were  in  increasing  demand  outside  of  his 
parish.  He  was  one  of  the  most  valued  counselors  at 
Chautauqua.  But  perhaps  the  outside  work,  which 
brought  him  the  highest  reputation,  was  done  in  his 
Farwell  Hall  lectures  on  the  defense  of  the  Scriptures 
and  the  evidences  of  Christianity.  These  are  now  to 
be  found,  and  they  richly  reward  reading,  in  his  vol- 
umes entitled,  "The  Ages  Before  Moses,"  and  "The 
Foundations." 

It  will  excite  surprise  on  the  part  of  no  one  who 
knows  him,  that  he  has  risen  to  the  highest  places 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  England.  He  has  just 
served  a  year  as  Moderator  of  the  Bnglish  Synod. 
His  preaching  and  his  pastoral  work  have  grown  in 
power  and  fruitfulness,  and  he  has  developed  into  an 
ecclesiastical  leader.  He  has  written  much.  Not  a 
few  have  received  their  first  insight  into  the  treasures 
of  Browning's  poetry  under  his  tuition.  His  com- 
mentary on  the  "  Gospel  According  to  Matthew  "  is 
one  of  the  most  tolerant,  interesting,  discriminating, 
and  spiritual  within  a  student's  reach.  His  "  Chris- 
tianity According  to  Christ "  is  a  homiletical  model 


238  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

which  brings  out  the  heart  of  the  gospel,  without  any 
touch  of  pharisaism.  It  is  a  matter  of  deep  regret  to 
us  all  that  he  cannot  be  here  to-day  among  those  who 
love  him,  and  it  is  a  conviction  deeply  rooted  in  my 
own  mind  that  vhe  ought  never  to  have  left  Chicago 
at  all. 

It  must  be  left  for  some  one  that  will  come  after  us 
to  sum  up  the  present  pastorate.  When  one  attempts 
to  estimate  his  own  work,  he  is  likely  to  end  either  in 
rampant  egotism  or  in  the  stealthy  egotism  of  false 
modesty.  What  is  safe  from  personal  idiosyncrasy 
is  mainly  a  matter  of  figures,  the  least  conclusive  cri- 
terion. There  has  been  no  special  revival;  would 
God  there  might  be  a  veritable  outpouring  from  above! 
But,  as  of  old,  there  has  been  some  gradual,  if  not 
large,  growth.  The  total  increment  since  1882,  for 
there  had  been  a  decrease  in  the  two  preceding  pastor- 
less  years,  has  been,  on  confession  of  faith,  somewhat 
over  250,  or  about  twenty-six  a  year ;  and  by  letter, 
nearly  300,  or  nearly  thirty-two  a  year ;  a  gross  in- 
crease of  almost  550,  or  fifty-seven  a  year.  The  total 
membership  on  our  rolls,  reckoned  in  the  old  way,  is 
920,  a  net  growth  of  just  about  200.  But  as  the  ses- 
sion has  been  careful  to  revise  its  lists,  we  have 
retired  to  a  u  reserved  roll "  some  108  whose  residence 
and  Christian  standing  are  unknown.  That  leaves 
an  active  membership  of  812,  very  few  of  whom  are 
beyond  our  knowledge. 

As  is  suitable  with  enhancing  wealth,  the  income 
and  benevolence  have  largely  increased.  The  debt 
has  been  gone  for  years.  The  aggregate  income  for 


FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY.  239 

the  church's  own  use,  current  expenses,  debt,  repairs, 
and  building  has  been  in  the  nine  and  one-half  years 
over  $250,000,  an  annual  average  of  about  $26,500. 
The  aggregate  benevolence  reported  to  the  General 
Assembly,  but  of  course  exclusive  of  large  sums  given 
by  individuals  in  the  church,  has  amounted  to  nearly 
$427,000,  or  almost  $44,500  a  year.  All  these  facts, 
with  the  spiritual  results  elusive  of  figures,  we  must 
commend  trustfully  and  gratefully  to  the  mercy  and 
grace  of  our  Father  in  Heaven.  It  would  be  a  pleas- 
ure to  name  over  the  leading  spirits,  for  example,  such 
faithful  officers  and  admirable  men  as  the  late  Dr. 
Frederick  Crumbaugh,  Oscar  F.  Avery,  Edward 
Brust,  Zuinglius  Grover,  George  C.  Clarke,  and  John 
Crerar,  who  have  made  our  church  effective  while 
time  was  stealing  on.  Many  of  them  have  been  my 
dear  friends,  and  all  of  them  are  my  heavy  credit- 
ors. But  most  of  them  are  now  looking  cordially 
into  my  face  and  silencing  the  tribute  of  my  heart. 
The  others,  a  holy  and  glorious  company,  are  seeing 
God's  face  in  righteousness,  knowing  as  they  are 
known,  and  satisfied  with  his  likeness.  At  least,  I 
am  sure  and  I  may  say  that  during  this  decade  there 
has  been  great  kindness  in  the  pews  and  much  happi- 
ness, not  unmingled  with  a  sense  of  opportunity  and 
obligation  in  the  pulpit.  The  old  and  the  young, 
men  and  women,  official  and  unofficial,  have  been  my 
hearty  fellow-workers  and  my  considerate  helpers, 
and  I  thank  them  for  it  unfeignedly. 

Who  of  us  would  dare  to  cast  the  horoscope  of  the 
future?     We  are  rooted  in  the  past.     Others  have 


24O  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

labored  and  we  have  entered  into  their  labors.  His- 
tory, let  us  hope,  may  itself  become  prophecy,  where 
her  grave  face  is  turned  forward.  God  is  still  above; 
Christ  Jesus  is  before  and  beyond ;  the  blessed  Spirit 
is  within.  With  quietness  and  confidence,  with  faith 
and  gratitude,  with  hope  and  mutual  affection,  let  us 
try  to  finish  our  appointed  task. 

One  practical  fact  is  plain :  We  are  again  becom- 
ing a  down-town  church.  Only  two  other  Evangel- 
ical churches,  I  believe,  now  remain  between  us  and 
the  Chicago  River.  Our  regular  attendants  are  get- 
ting farther  away.  The  population  in  our  immediate 
neighborhood  is  changing  its  character.  The  day 
may  come  before  many  years  shall  have  passed,  when 
we  must  again  choose  between  changing  either  our 
location  or  the  nature  of  our  work.  Whatever  others 
may  do,  I  see  no  disposition  in  this  church  to  remove 
it  to  another  site.  With  the  $10,000  each  left  for 
mission  work  to  our  trustees  by  Flavel  Moseley  and 
Mrs.  Clarissa  C.  Peck,  the  noble  founder  of  the  Home 
for  Incurables,  and  with  the  magnificent  endowment 
of  $200,000  bequeathed  to  us  by  our  princely  friend, 
John  Crerar,  one  of  the  noblest  benefactors  that  church 
ever  had,  we  may  still  find  a  way  to  do  a  great  work 
on  this  hallowed  corner,  even  if  the  old  Second  should 
eventually  become  an  absolute  mission  church. 
Meantime,  whether  here  or  elsewhere,  we  must  strive 
earnestly  and  unitedly  to  proclaim  the  unsearchable 
riches  of  Christ  as  the  one  revealed  and  infallible 
balm  for  healing  the  hurt  of  his  sinful  children  every- 
where. 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  241 

THE  MEMORIAL  HYMN. 

BY  ERASTUS   FOOTE,   ESQ. 

Hursley,  L.  M. 

Father  in  heaven,  to  Thee  we  raise 
The  joyful  tribute  of  our  praise, 
Let  thy  good  Spirit  now  appear 
And  hallow  this  Memorial  Year. 

How  kindly  hast  Thou  led  our  way, 
A  fire  by  night,  a  cloud  by  day, 
The  past  doth  by  its  mercies  prove 
The  richness  of  thy  bounteous  love. 

Thou  Triune  God,  whom  we  adore, 
Help  us  to  love  Thee  more  and  more ; 
Unite  our  songs  with  those  who  raise 
In  heaven  their  notes  of  perfect  praise. 

Still  may  Thy  church  reflect  the  grace 
That  shines  in  her  Redeemer's  face, 
And  to  our  earthly  lives  be  given 
The  peace  that  cometh  down  from  heaven. 

Teach  us,  dear  Lord,  Thy  will  to  know, 
Help  us  in  all  Thy  paths  to  go, 
And  gently  guide  us  in  the  road, 
That  leads  us  safely  home  to  God. 

JUBILEE  OF  THE  SUNDAY  SCHOOLS. 

SUNDAY,  2  P.  M.,  JUNE  19. 

Mr.  T.  W.  Harvey,  Superintendent  of  the  Second 
Church  Sunday  School,  presided. 

The  members  of  the  Church  School,  of  Moseley 
Mission  School  and  of  the  School  of  the  Immanuel 
Presbyterian  Church  participated. 

The  exercises  were  opened  with  prayer  by  Dr. 
Patterson. 

Six  children  were  baptized  by  the  Pastor. 


242  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

ADDRESS  BY  REV.  R.  W.  PATTERSON,  D.D. 

I  will  detain  you  but  a  very  few  moments  with 
any  remarks  that  I  have  to  make.  And  I  ought  to 
say  to  the  children,  they  will  discover  it,  that  for 
many  years  I  have  not  been  accustomed  to  speak  to 
Sabbath-schools,  but  I  can  say  a  few  things  to  you 
possibly  some  of  which  you  may  remember.  One 
thing  is,  I  have  noticed  in  the  history  of  the 
children  that  used  to  attend  the  Sabbath-school  of 
this  church  that  they  have  grown  up  as  a  general 
thing  to  be  useful  men  and  women.  They  have 
become  members  of  the  church  and  have  become 
instruments  of  doing  not  only  a  great  deal  of  good  in 
the  church  but  also  out  of  it.  What  I  hope  for  the 
children  that  are  here,  not  only  for  those  connected 
with  the  church  school  but  also  for  those  who  are 
connected  with  the  mission  schools,  is  that  I  shall 
live  yet  to  see  some  of  you  become  members  of  the 
Church  of  Christ  and  interested  in  every  good  work 
where  you  are  called  upon  to  act,  and  that  you  may 
accomplish  the  purpose  for  which  you  come  to  Sun- 
day-school. 

I  want  to  say  one  or  two  things.  The  first  is  that 
I  hope  you  will  all  be  punctual  in  your  attendance  at 
Sunday-school ;  be  regular  from  Sabbath  to  Sabbath 
and  not  allow  any  little  thing  to  keep  you  away  from 
the  Sabbath-school.  I  notice  that  those  children  who 
grow  up  to  be  useful  are  those  who  attend  the  Sun- 
day-school regularly  and  do  not  allow  little  things  to 
detain  them  at  home  when  they  ought  to  be  in  their 
place  at  school. 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  243 

Another  thing  is  I  hope  you  will  all  endeavor  to 
maintain  your  places  in  the  Sabbath-school, — that 
you  will  not  be  in  a  hurry  to  leave  school  early  as  a 
good  many  children  are  after  they  grow  up  and 
become  fourteen  or  fifteen  years  old,  when  they  begin 
to  think  it  is  time  they  should  leave  the  Sunday- 
school.  I  have  noticed  those  who  derive  the  greatest 
benefit  from  the  Sunday-school  and  become  the  most 
useful  in  their  day  are  generally  those  that  continue 
in  the  school  and  after  they  are  grown  old  enough 
enter  the  Bible  class  and  stay  there  until  they  get  all 
the  assistance  which  they  can  derive  from  the 
instruction  which  they  have  there  received.  Do  not 
be  in  a  hurry  to  leave  the  Sunday-school  when  you 
get  a  little  older  than  you  are  now. 

Just  one  thing  more.  I  have  noticed  that  those 
children  that  become  useful  members  of  the  church 
and  useful  in  the  world  are  those  that  attend  upon 
the  preaching  of  the  gospel  in  connection  with  the 
Sunday-school.  Some  children  go  away  immediately 
from  the  Sunday-school  and  do  not  remain  to  hear 
the  minister  when  he  preaches  the  gospel  to  the  peo- 
ple. Now,  I  think  that  every  child  in  the  Sabbath- 
school  ought  to  make  it  a  point,  if  there  is  preaching 
within  reach,  to  go  and  hear  it.  You  must  remember 
that  the  church  was  before  the  Sabbath-school  and  it 
is  the  duty  of  every  child  in  the  Sabbath-school  as 
far  as  possible,  as  soon  as  they  become  capable  of 
understanding  anything  that  is  said  to  go  and  listen 
to  the  preaching  of  the  Word.  It  may  be  that  in 
attendance  upon  the  preaching  this  Sunday  you  will 


244  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

not  understand  all  that  is  said  to  you,  but  next  Sun- 
day you  can  understand  a  little  more  and  the  next 
Sunday  a  little  more,  and  this  is  the  way  to  derive 
the  greatest  benefit  not  only  from  your  Sabbath- 
school  instructions,  but  also  from  the  preaching  in 
the  church.  I  made  similar  remarks  to  this  a  few 
Sundays  ago  in  a  Sabbath -school  where  I  used  to  be 
superintendent  more  than  fifty-five  years  ago,  and 
afterwards  one  of  the  members  of  the  church  said  to 
me,  "  the  great  difficulty  with  the  children  of  the 
Sabbath-school  is  that  they  have  so  many  meetings 
to  attend  they  cannot  be  expected  to  go  and  hear  the 
preaching  as  well  as  to  attend  these  other  meetings." 
I  said,  "  I  think  it  is  their  first  duty  after  they  have 
attended  the  Sabbath-school  and  if  it  is  necessary  to 
drop  any  meeting  drop  some  other  institution  rather 
than  attendance  upon  the  preaching  of  the  gospel." 
And  so  I  do  think,  and  I  hope  that  you  will  all  make 
it  a  point  to  attend  church,  attend  upon  the  preach- 
ing of  the  gospel  as  far  as  it  may  be  within  your  power. 
Now  then,  that  is  all  that  I  have  to  say.  After 
another  half  century  shall  pass  there  will  be  others 
who  will  review  your  history,  and  inquire  what 
became  of  this  scholar  in  the  Sabbath-school  and 
that  scholar  in  the  Sabbath-school  and  the  other; 
where  did  they  go  and  what  did  they  do?  I  hope  it 
will  be  said  of  every  one  of  you  that  you  have  been 
faithful  in  you  attendance  upon  the  school,  that  you 
have  been  faithful  in  your  attendance  at  the  church, 
and  that  you  have  grown  up  to  be  useful  men  and 
women  in  your  day  and  generation. 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  245 

REMARKS   BY  MR.   HARVEY. 

Now,  children,  we  expected  to  have  Dr.  Gibson 
here.  Dr.  Gibson  used  to  preach  in  this  church.  In 
fifty  years  we  have  had  only  three  pastors,  Dr.  Patter- 
son, who  just  spoke  to  you,  was  the  first  pastor  and 
preached  here  for  thirty-two  years.  Then  Dr.  Gibson 
came ;  this  is  his  portrait  you  see  here  [indicating  Dr. 
Gibson's  portrait  in  front  of  the  pulpit];  he  came 
here  and  was  with  us  for  six  years  and  then  we  waited 
two  years  trying  to  find  Dr.  McPherson.  Dr.  Mc- 
Pherson  will  read  a  portion  of  a  letter  that  Dr.  Gibson 
has  written. 

Dr.  McPherson  then  read  a  portion  of  the  letter, 
which  is  printed  in  full  on  another  page. 

After  the  schools  had  sung  "Jesus  Shall  Reign," 
came  the 

ADDRESS  BY   THE  PASTOR. 

* 

Children,  you  know  we  are  keeping  to-day  the 
birthday  of  this  old  church.  Fifty  years  ago,  on  the 
first  day  of  June,  it  was  born.  Happy  thing,  it  would 
seem,  that  it  was  born  in  June,  the  floral  month. 
These  flowers  seem  to  be  rejoicing  with  us  to-day.  At 
a  birthday  we  like  to  have  our  friends  with  us,  and  as 
the  pastor  of  this  church  I  want  to  say  to  our  visitors 
from  the  Immanuel  Church  that  we  are  very  glad  to 
see  them,  the  children  and  the  older  ones  alike,  and 
we  are  very  much  honored  that  the  Sunday-school  of 
the  Immanuel  Church  and  the  Sunday-school  of  the 
Moseley, — all  our  friends  and  Moseley  School  a  part 
of  our  number,  have  come  here  to-day. 


246  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

Three  things  I  want  to  say.  First,  if  you  look 
around  the  ledge  of  the  gallery  you  will  see  portraits 
of  a  few  of  the  men  and  women  that  helped  to  make 
this  church.  Many  of  them,  as  Dr.  Gibson  has  said, 
have  done  a  great  deal  towards  making  Chicago. 
Now,  when  you  think  of  these  portraits  and  look  at 
them,  I  hope  you  will  remember  the  first  thing  I  want 
to  say,  namely,  that  you  and  I  ought  to  be  very  thank- 
ful, indeed, — even  the  little  ones,  ought  to  be  very 
thankful, — to  those  that  are  gone,  our  fathers  and 
mothers,  our  grandfathers  and  grandmothers,  for  all 
that  they  have  done  for  us.  We  should  not  have  so 
many  blessings,  we  should  not  have  nearly  so  much 
done  for  us  to-day,  if  they  had  not  served  Jesus  Christ 
and  been  worthy  men  and  women. 

The  second  thing :  This  morning  at  our  services 
in  this  church  we  were  thinking  about  the  last  fifty 
years.  I  look  out  upon  these  children,  happy  and 
very  quiet  and  gentle  as  they  have  been  here  this  after- 
noon, and  I  think  of  the  next  fifty  years.  There  are 
only  two  of  the  first  members  of  this  church  that  are 
living  to-day, — Mr.  Carter,  an  elder,  and  Mrs.  Webster, 
now  a  member  of  the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church. 
They  two,  with  dear  Dr.  Patterson,  the  first  pastor, 
and  two  others  who  were  among  the  supporters  of  the 
church  at  the  first,  Mr.  Cobb  and  Mrs.  Hadduck,  are 
the  only  five  that  remain  of  the  people  who  helped  to 
establish  this  church.  Fifty  years  from  now  I  sup- 
pose that  almost  nobody  that  is  here  to-day  will 
remain,  excepting  some  of  you  younger  ones.  When 
the  next  fifty  years  shall  have  passed  and  you  have  a 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  247 

centennial  celebration,  I  hope  that  you  will  have 
served  Jesus  Christ  as  well  as  these  men  and  women 
did  in  the  last  fifty  years.  Remember,  God  will  depend 
on  you.  Remember,  you  will  also  depend  on  God  and 
serve  Him. 

Only  one  thing  more  I  want  to  say.  There  are 
some  souvenirs  that  the  Committee  in  charge  have 
prepared  to  give  you  in  order  that  you  may  remember 
this  day.  Now,  you  will  see  a  good  deal  in  those 
souvenirs  about  the  pastors  of  this  church,  the  three ; 
there  are  allusions  to  each  one.  When  you  look  at 
the  portraits  of  these  men,  not  distinguished  for  beauty 
any  of  them,  perhaps,  I  want  each  of  you  boys  to  think 
whether  it  is  not  worth  your  while  to  be  a  minister,  too. 
This  church  has  turned  out  seven  or  eight  ministers  in 
the  days  that  are  gone ;  Mr.  Williams,  Dr.  Hathaway 
and  Dr.  Adams,  who  are  in  service  now ;  Dr.  Wight, 
who  died  a  little  while  ago ;  Mr.  Ambrose  S.  Wight, 
his  son,  who  is  a  pastor  now  at  Waynesville  in  this 
State;  Mr.  Bradford  Averell,  who  died  just  as  he  was 
beginning  his  work;  Mr.  Granger,  who  is  serving 
Christ  at  Dixon,  and,  later,  a  young  man  still,  Mr. 
Boomer,  who  is  known  to  many  of  you,  and  who  is 
preaching  out  in  South  America  to-day,  but  whose 
heart  is  here,  I  am  sure ;  and  two  or  three  others.  Now, 
I  hope  that  one  work  of  the  Immanuel  Church,  of  the 
Second  Church  and  of  Moseley  School,  teachers  and 
pupils,  one  and  all,  one  great  mission,  will  be  to  provide 
worthy  and  capable  and  devoted  ministers  of  the  gos- 
pel of  Christ.  I  pray  God  to  stir  the  hearts  of  the 


248  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

boys  here  to-day  that  that  may  be  one  result  of  our 
prayers  and  our  thought  together. 

I  just  want  to  thank  you  again  for  your  kindness 
in  coming,  and  tell  you  we  are  glad  to  see  you,  be- 
cause we  are  very  happy  on  this  great  occasion,  as  it 
is  to  us. 

REMARKS   BY   MR.    HARVEY. 

I  want  to  say  another  word  about  this  souvenir. 
It  is  a  book  of  twenty  pages  beautifully  bound.  On 
the  first  page  you  will  find  the  portraits  of  the  three 
churches,  the  first  church,  "  the  Spotted  Church," 
and  the  [present  church,  and  a  little  sketch ;  then 
there  is  a  portrait  of  Dr.  Patterson,  and  a  little  biog- 
raphy ;  a  portrait  of  Dr.  Gibson,  and  a  short  biogra- 
phy, and  a  portrait  of  our  present  pastor,  Dr.  Mc- 
Pherson,  and  a  brief  sketch.  There  is  a  list  of  the 
superintendents  of  the  Sabbath-school  for  fifty  years ; 
then  the  order  of  exercises.  Here  is  a  list  that  con- 
tains something  about  some  of  the  old  members ;  then 
a  list  of  the  present  Sunday-school  officers,  teachers 
and  everyone  in  the  present  Sunday-school.  This 
little  book  is  worth  keeping.  We  have  put  it  in  an 
envelope  that  you  may  keep  it  fifty  years.  Now, 
here  is  a  record  of  fifty  years.  You  want  to  keep 
this  fifty  years.  Fifty  years  from  now  it  will  be  very 
valuable.  Now,  who  are  going  to  have  these  books  ? 
We  are  going  to  give  them  to  all  members  of  the 
Sunday-schools  that  are  here,  the  teachers,  and  offi- 
cers and  the  pupils  of  the  Bible  classes  are  entitled 
each  to  one  of  these  books.  We  are  going  to  give 
one  then  to  every  member  of  the  church  that  is  here. 


FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY.  249 

We  are  going  to  give  them  to  all  who  have  ever 
been  members  of  the  church.  Then  if  there  are  any 
other  persons  who  are  in  the  church,  perhaps  we  can 
give  them  one.  We  want  first  to  give  them  to  those 
who  are  members  of  the  church  or  congregation. 
Now,  as  we  are  going  out,  the  scholars  will  receive 
their  souvenirs  as  they  pass  through  the  doors  on 
either  side.  Then  any  members  of  the  church  can 
come  forward  and  receive  them  here  at  the  altar.  We 
will  all  sing  together  what  we  love  to  sing  so  well, 
11  God  be  with  you  till  we  meet  again," — just  one 
verse. 

The  benediction  was  pronounced  by  Rev.  Earl  B. 
Hubbell.  

OFFICERS  AND  TEACHERS 

OF  THE 

SUNDAY-SCHOOL  OF  THE  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN 

CHURCH 
OF  CHICAGO,  1891-2. 


T.  W.  HARVEY,  A.  M.  TURNER, 

Superintendent.  Asst.  Superintendent. 

HUGH  McB.  JOHNSTON,  CHARLES  S.  HOLT,         GEO.  U.  BROWN, 
Secretary.  Treasurer.    W.  R.  CUNDALL, 

VICTOR  WINDETT,         T.  W.  HARVEY,  JR.,      M-  F-  MOORE, 

Sety  in  1891.  Asst.  Treasurer.  Librarians. 

Miss  ELIZABETH  THIEL,  Louis  E.  EVANS,         MRS.  FRANK  H.CHILDS. 

Pianist.  Chorister.  Organist. 

TEACHERS. 

Allen,  H.  Ford  Brewer,  Fred  G.  Cronise,  Miss  Carrie  C. 

Allen,  Ira  W.,  Jr.  Brown,  S.  Lockwood  Crumbaugh,  Mrs.  F. 

Allen,  Mrs.  Ira  W.,  Jr.          (Teacher  50  years.)  Curtis,  Dr.  Lester 

Baker,  Wm.  M.  Buell,  Miss  Elizabeth  *Ely,  Edward 

Baker,  Mrs.  Wm.  M.  Campbell,  Mrs.  N.  W.  Ely,  Mrs.  Edward 

Benton,  Miss  Terza  Childs,  Mrs.  Frank  H.  Farwell,  Mrs.  Granger 

*Died  December  21,  1891. 


250 


SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


Forsyth,  Mrs.  Robert 
Fulton,  A.  W. 
Glendenning,  Mrs.  C.H. 
Giles,  Miss  Annie 
Goodman,  Miss  Ella 
Goodman,  Guy 
Gould,  Miss  Sarah 
Harvey,  Miss  Belle  B. 
Harvey,  Mrs.  T.  W. 
Hayward,  Wm.  J. 
Henderson,  Miss  Helen 
Hill,  Mrs.  Kate  G. 
Holt,  Charles  S. 


Holt,  Mrs.  Charles  S. 
Hoyne,  Miss  Maude 
Jaggard,  Mrs.  W.  W. 
Johnson,  Miss  Hilda 
Johnson,  Miss  Maude 
Kendall,  S.  T. 
Kent,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 
Lawrence,  Miss  Annie  B 
Matthews,  Mrs.  Chas. 
Matthews,  Rev.  Jas.  T. 
Merriman,  Dr.  H.  P. 
Odell,  Mrs.  Isaac 
Page,  Mrs.  Peter 


Pancoast,  J.  C. 
Pancoast,  Mrs  R.  A.  I. 
Patterson,  H.  C. 
Snively,  Miss  Annie 
Spohn,  George 
Strong,  Miss  Lessie 
Swartz,  George  E. 
Thomas,  Miss  Annie  O. 
Thomas,  Miss  Ida  W. 
Ward,  Miss  Amy  H. 
Ward,  Dr.  Chas.  W. 
Ward,  Miss  Lily  E. 


NAMES  OF  MEMBERS 

OF  THE 

SUNDAY-SCHOOL  OF  THE    SECOND    PRESBYTERIAN 

CHURCH. 
JUNE,  1892. 


Adams,  Annie  M. 
Adams,  Helen  E. 
Allen,  Eleanor 
Allen,  Philip  S. 
Andrews,  Dr.  E. 
Avery,  Mrs.  P.  A. 
Baker,  Bertha 
Baker,  Francis 
Baker,  Henry  D. 
Baker,  Lizzie 
Barrett,  Laura 
Bass,  Kate 
Benham,  L.  M. 
Boynton,  Pearl 
Bradford,  Theron 
Brown,  Eleanor 
Brownlee,  Clyde 
Connell,  Emma 
Crumbaugh,  Fred. 
Cundall,  Jessie 
Day,  Charles  B. 
Day,  Clara 
Daemicke,  H.  P. 


ADULTS. 

Dunlap,  A. 
Eck,  Sophia 
Ely,  Dr.  J.  O. 
Ely,  Mrs.  J.  O. 
Ettinger,  Annie 
Ewing,  Mary  B. 
Forsythe,  Robert 
Froeber,  Albert 
Froeber,  William 
Gillespie,  Elizabeth 
Gould,  Mrs.  J.  S. 
Gray,  Charles 
Gray,  Isabel 
Hart,  Hattie 
Hatch,  Julia 
Hunt,  Mary 
Jones,  Frank 
Jones,  Robt. 
Kent,  Loren 
Krumm,  Emma  C. 
Laughlin,  Lilly 
McDonald,  James 
McDowell,  Mabel 


McGee,  Harry 
McGee,  Wilford 
McNeill,  Stella 
McNeill,  William 
Malcolm,  Casper 
Mattocks,  Bessie 
Moore,  John 
Moore,  Julia 
Moore,  Louis  R. 
Morris,  Sadie 
Page,  Alice 
Page,  Chas.  L. 
Page,  Eleanor 
Pary,  Mrs.  P.  H. 
Paul,  Jennie  G. 
Peak,  Sallie  E. 
Peebles,  Arthur 
Phillips,  George  B. 
Potter,  P.  F. 
Pratt,  C.  A. 
Preston,  Ella 
Ralston,  Mr.  H.  M. 
Ralston,  Mrs.  H.  M. 


FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY. 


251 


Reigart,  Mrs.  Emma  C 
Rigley,  Mrs.  May 
Robinson,   Blanch 
Rockwell,  John 
Rogers,  W.  T. 
Romer,  Mary 
Ross,  H.  A. 
Shaw,  Allen  D. 

Allen,  Florence 
Attwood,  Elvira  G. 
Atwell,  Benj. 
Atwell,  Harry 
Atwell,  John 
Atwell,  Marshall 
Avery,  Norton 
Baker,  Agnes 
Baker,  Maurice 
Barker,  Anna 
Barnes,  Edward 
Barnett,  Robert 
Earth,  Alfred 
*Barth,  Chas. 
Barth,  Louis 
Barth,  Martha 
Bell,  Grace 
Bellas,  Emmeline 
Bickford,  lone 
fBickford,  Marie 
Birch,  Helen 
Birch,  Hugh  T. 
Bishop,  Fred.  W. 
Boal,  Ayres 
Bourland,  Carrie 
Bowing,  Wm. 
Boyer,  Herbert 
Bradley,  Ilzadia 
Brand,  Belle 
Brand,  Edward  L. 
Burke,  Daniel  J. 
Burrus,  Alma 
Cass,  May 
Cass,  Sadie 
Champagne,  Aggie 


.Smith,  Julia 
Smith,  Maggie 
Smith,  Wm. 
Steele,  Mary  H. 
Strickler,  Harvey 
Swartz,  Louise 
Taylor,  R.  W. 
Tillman,  Augusta 

INTERMEDIATE. 

Clark,  Churchill 
Clark,  Earl 
Clark,  Peter  S. 
Coburn,  Robert 
Colehour,  Nellie 
Crossett,  George 
Crotchell,  Annie 
Curtis,  Logan  H. 
Curtis,  Mary 
Curtis,  Mary  C. 
Curtis,  Sally 
Daemicke,  Chester 
Daemicke,  Eddie  O. 
Deavendorf,  Alida 
Deavendorf,  Frank 
Dietz,  Ida 
Downs,  Edna  E. 
Dreher,  Marie 
Eck,  Amanda  S. 
Eck,  Lydia  C. 
Elfelt,  Alfred 
Evans,  Rawley 
Fargo,  Chas.  E.,  Jr. 
Fargo,  Lee 
Farnum,  Harry  W. 
Farwell,  Leslie 
Farwell,  Mabel 
Fiddelke,  Emma 
Fiddelke,  Ida 
Forsythe,  B.  H. 
Forsythe,  Dan  S. 
Forsythe,  Esther 
Forsythe,  Logan  W. 
Forsythe,  Robt. 
Fowler,  Cecil 


Titus,  Minnie 
Van  Vliet,  Alice 
Van  Vliet,  Marian 
Vokuhl,  Gussie 
Wallace,  R.  R. 
White,  Frank  M. 
Wilmore,  E.  C. 


Froeber,  Albert 
Froeber,  Emma 
Geraci,  Mary 
Giles,  Alice  E. 
Gillespie,  Isabel 
Gillespie,  Marion 
Gillespie,  Milton  G. 
Glendenning,  Kittie 
Grannis,  Uri  B. 
Grant,  Charles  V. 
Grant,  Susan  C. 
Graper,  Minnie 
Gray,  Ira 
Greer,  Murray 
Gregerson,  Harry 
Haines,  Albert 
Hale,  Edna 
Hall,  Desmond 
Hartung,  Mary 
Harvey,  Addie 
Harvey,  Elbert 
Harvey,  Elvira 
Harvey,  Fred.  R. 
Harvey,  Paul 
Hascall,  Hattie  L. 
Hastings,  Florence 
Hastings,  George  F.,  Jr. 
Hastings,  John  G. 
Hastings,  Louise 
Hawes,  John 
Hawes,  Levanche 
Hill,  Mabel 
Hyde,  Earl 
Insley,  Jennie 
Insley,  Stella 


*  Died  in  April,  1892.    f  Died  in  February,  1892. 


252 


SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


Jones,  Frances 
Jones,  Freda 
Junkin,  Alpha 
Kearney,  Mary 
Keep,  Albert,  Jr. 
Kent,  Mamie 
Kent,  Richard 
Kerns,  Blanche 
Kerr,  Marie 
Kipp,  Sadie 
Knox,  Marion 
Kugher,  Frank 
Lampson,  Maude 
Lehman,  Ida 
Leiger,  Esther  W. 
Leiger,  Ida 
Leiger,  Rose 
Loveless,  Frank 
Loveless,  Leroy 
McCaulay,  Anna  N. 
McCaulay,  Helen 
McCauley,  Thomas 
McClaughry,  John  G. 
McClaughry,  Mary  C. 
McCuen,  Ettie 
McKillip,  George 
McKillip,  Mattie 
McNeill,  Thomas 
McPherson,  Jeanette 
McPherson,  Oscar 
Matteson,  Charles  C. 
Moderwell,  Otis 
Moore,  Orville  B. 
Mott,  Edith 
Mullen,  May 
Muller,  Mamie 
Murray,  Luta  M. 
Nay,  William 
Neahr,  Grace  T. 

Barth,  George 
Barth,   Max 
Barth,  Richard 
Bellas,  Edith 
Bellas,  Helena 

*Died  in  July,  1891. 


Noble,  Laura  W. 
Noblett,  Walter 
Odell,  Alice 
Olson,  Ernest 
Olson,  Fred. 
Olson,  Ingre 
Olson,  Lilly 
Ortman,  Edward 
Parker,  Elizabeth 
Patterson,  John  A. 
Patterson,  William 
Peck,  Arline 
Peck,  Clarence  H. 
Peck,  Walter  V. 
Peebles,  W.  S. 
Phelps,  Wallace  W. 
Pottinger,  John 
Ralston,  Ethel 
Ralston,  John  G. 
Ream,  Frances 
Ream,  Marion 
Ream,  Norman,  Jr. 
Ream,  Robert 
Richter,  Joe 
Ronse,  Harry 
Schlicht,  Rickie 
Seeberger,  Lucia 
Shriner,  Samuel 
Smith,  Edna 
Smith,  Fred.  G. 
Smith,  Joseph 
Smith,  Kate 
Smith,  Laura  M. 
Solon,  John 
Southmayd,  Chas. 
Spohn,  Bertha 
Spohn,  Fred. 
Spohn,  Zeno  M. 
Sprague,  Albert  A. 

PRIMARY. 

Bishop,  Lee 
Cass,  Helen 
Coburn,  Virginia 
Crumbaugh,  Mabel 
Daemicke,  Bertie 


Sprague,  Lucy 
Sprague,  Otho  S.  A. 
Starkweather,  Hunting- 
ton 

Steffens,  Leo 
Steffens,  Romeo 
Steinbach,  Louis 
Stitt,  Nancy 
Taylor,  Bertha  M. 
Thiel,  Emma  B. 
Tillman,  Ella  M. 
Thorp,  John  N. 
Thorp,  Mary  A. 
Tuft,  George  M. 
Upham,  Robert 
Upham,  William 
*Van  Wert,  Mott 
Vokuhl,  Frances  S. 
Waldron,  Heleji 
Wall,  Frank 
Wall,  Harry  E. 
Wallace,  Bessie  H. 
Wallace,  James 
Wallace,  Mary 
Watson,  Elmer 
Watson,  Jessie 
Watson,  Mamie 
Watson,  Mary 
Watson,  Tom  D. 
Watson,  William  F. 
Webber,  Dora 
Webber,  Hannah 
Webber,  Ida  M. 
Williams,  Mary 
Williams,  Norman,  Jr. 
Wilmarth,  Gertrude 
Wilson,  Mara  Bella 
Windette,  Villet 
Zander,  Julius 

Davis,  Harriet 
Dexter,  Bessie  Hoard 
Dexter,  Elise 
Dexter,  Fletcher 
Dexter,  Forsythe 


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253 


Dickey,  Beatrice 
Diez,  Essie 
Dudenbostle,  Clara 
Fargo,  Alvin 
Fargo,  Evelyn 
Fargo,  Miller 
Farwell,  Ruth 
Farwell,  Olive 
Feeny,  Laura 
Forsythe,  Jean 
Geraci,  Rose 
Goold,  Florence 
Gregerson,  Tillie 
Hall,  Merritt 
Hanson,  John  L. 
Harmon,  Frances 
Harmon,  Rawson 
Hartung,  James 
Hawes,  Fannie 
Hays,  Hazel 
Hays,  Lee  D. 
Heinzerling  Meta 


Horn,  Wm. 
Hunt,  Margaret 
Me  Birney,AnnieLaurie 
McCauley,  Clare 
McCauley,  Herman 
McKillip,  Harry 
McKillip,  Walter 
McNeill,  Frank  R. 
McPherson,  Elizabeth 
McPherson,  John 
Melhuish,  Eddie 
Melhuish,  Elise 
Morgan,  Willie 
Mott,  Harry 
Mott,  Walter 
Nay,  Ethel 
Nay,  Harriett 
Neubert,  Fred 
Neubert,  Grace 
O'Dell,  Annie 
Olson,  Arthur 


Olson,  Gustave 
Parker,  Elsa 
Patterson,  Evelyn 
Ralston,  James 
Read,  May 
Ream,  Edward 
Ream,  Louie 
Richter,  John 
Rigler,  Edith 
Rigler,  Eva 
Samuels,  George 
Schlecht,  Amelia 
Smith,  Ethel 
Spohn,  Mabel 
Spohn,  May 
Stern,  Juanita 
Suiter,  Harry 
Van  Sickle,  Albert 
Wall,  Millie  B. 
Webber,  Dora 
Webber,  Harry 


UNION  COMMUNION  SERVICE. 

SUNDAY  EVENING,   JUNE 


The  First  Presbyterian  Church,  the  mother 
church,  joined  by  invitation  in  this  holy  jubilee. 
The  pastor  of  the  Second  Church  presided,  assisted 
by  Dr.  Patterson  and  Rev.  John  Henry  Barrows,  D.D., 
pastor  of  the  First  Church.  The  elements  were 
distributed  jointly  by  the  Elders  of  the  two  churches. 
An  invocation  was  offered  by  the  pastor  ;  the  prayer 
of  consecration  by  Dr.  Barrows,  and  the  closing 
prayer  by  Dr.  Patterson. 

Dr.  Barrows  administered  the  bread,  and  the  Pas- 
tor the  cup.  Besides  the  words  instituting  the 
Lord's  Supper,  recorded  in  i  Corinthians,  xi,  23-29, 
the  iO3rd  Psalm  was  read.  The  hymns  were  "All 
hail  the  power  of  Jesus'  name,"  which  has  been  sung 


254  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

at  every  celebration  of  the  communion  during  the 
present  pastorate,  and  "  Rock  of  Ages,"  which  was 
sung  at  every  communion  during  Dr.  Patterson's 
pastorate.  Dr.  Patterson  made  the  opening  address, 
and  the  Pastor  followed  him  with  the  letter  of  greet- 
ing sent  by  the  second  pastor,  Rev.  J.  Monro  Gibson, 
D.D.,  of  London,  England. 

ADDRESS  BY  DR.  PATTERSON. 

It  always  seems  to  me  appropriate  before  we  cele- 
brate the  Supper  of  our  Lord  that  we  should  turn  our 
thoughts  for  a  time  to  the  meaning  and  peculiarities 
of  this  ordinance.  It  is  a  memorial ;  so  our  Saviour 
says  "  Do  this  in  remembrance  of  me."  But  it  is  a 
very  peculiar  memorial.  It  is  not  a  local  monument 
set  up  in  honor  of  a  particular  person.  It  is  to  be 
found  everywhere ;  wherever  there  are  followers  of 
Christ  this  monument  is  to  be  found,  and  it  is 
adapted  to  this  universal  use  from  the  fact  that  the 
elements  of  it  can  be  obtained  everywhere  in  this 
wide  world.  A  monument  set  up  in  honor  of  an 
earthly  hero  must  have  a  particular  locality.  This 
has  no  particular  locality.  It  can  be  celebrated 
everywhere,  in  all  quarters  of  the  globe,  in  Asia, 
Africa,  Europe  and  America.  There  is  no  limit  to 
the  observance  of  this  ordinance,  except  the  Christian 
churches.  It  is  the  only  visible  ordinance  that  is 
made  universal.  A  visible  ordinance,  a  visible 
memorial,  must  be  usually  restricted  to  a  particular 
place,  but  this  is  restricted  to  no  place,  no  country. 
Then  it  is  worth  while  for  us  to  consider  the 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  355 

peculiarity  of  the  Lord's  Supper  in  respect  to  the 
appointment  of  it.  Who  was  it  that  required  us  to 
eat  this  bread  and  drink  this  cup  f  It  was  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  Himself,  and  He  required  that  we  should 
do  it  in  memory  of  Him.  This  suggests  to  us  that 
He  was  a  very  peculiar  person.  What  if  Washington 
had  enjoined  upon  the  people  of  his  country  to  erect 
a  monument  in  memory  of  him  ?  What  if  Grant  had 
made  such  a  requirement?  What  if  Lincoln  had 
required  that  after  his  death  there  should  be  a  monu- 
ment raised  to  his  memory  and  that  his  life  or  death 
or  something  connected  with  his  work  should  be 
celebrated  by  his  country?  What  if  St.  Paul  had 
required  that  his  life,  his  sufferings,  his  death,  should 
be  commemorated  by  all  those  who  should  read  the 
history  in  the  subsequent  ages  ?  Should  we  not 
conclude  that  such  a  requirement  savored  not  only 
of  egotism  but  of  extreme  self-congratulation  ?  But 
Jesus  Christ  did  not  merely  recommend,  but  required 
that  we  should  observe  this  ordinance  in  memory  of 
Him.  Now,  could  this  be  fitting,  if  He  had  been  an 
ordinary  man  ?  If  He  had  not  been  a  peculiar  per- 
son ?  If  His  mission  had  not  been  designed  to 
accomplish  peculiar  purposes  ?  The  great  Unitarian, 
Dr.  Martineau,  of  England,  made  an  objection  to  a 
portion  of  the  gospel  of  Matthew,  asserting  that  it 
would  not  have  been  fitting  for  Christ  to  have  said 
such  things  concerning  Himself,  especially  in  the 
declaration  by  Himself,  "  I  am  lowly  of  heart."  How 
could  a  person  of  ordinary  modesty,  he  said,  have 
made  such  a  declaration  as  that  concerning  himself? 


256 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


He  did  not  consider  the  peculiarity  of  the  person,  the 
divine  nature  of  man.  He  might  much  more  have 
objected  to  His  enjoining  that  we  should  celebrate 
His  sufferings  and  death  in  the  ages  that  were  to 
come.  "  This  do  in  remembrance  of  Me."  He 
enjoins  this  upon  all  his  followers  in  the  wide 
world.  Why?  Because  of  his  divine  authority, 
and  because  His  mission  was  designed  to  accom- 
plish a  purpose  which  no  other  mission  was  ever 
designed  for.  And  then  He  tells  us  in  the  appoint- 
ment of  this  ordinance  what  that  design  was.  He 
requires  that  we  should  celebrate  His  death,  not  His 
teachings,  not  His  example,  not  His  miracles,  but 
His  death.  We  are  thus  at  once  taught  two  great 
truths  respecting  the  personal  work  of  our  Blessed 
Saviour,  in  this  ordinance,  the  Divine  Lamb  has 
come  and  was  to  die  for  the  remission  of  the  sins  of 
this  world.  This  is  the  meaning  of  this  ordinance, 
and  it  was  for  this  reason  that  He  required  it  as  a 
celebration  of  Himself  throughout  the  whole  world. 
And  then  this  is  also  a  symbol  of  the  communion  of 
Saints.  Only  those  are  admitted  to  participation  in 
this  ordinance  who  are  the  followers  of  Christ,  per- 
sonal believers  in  Him  who  trust  in  His  sacrifice. 
It  is  the  communion  of  Saints,  of  all  the  Saints  in 
the  world,  of  all  the  Saints  that  have  ever  lived  since 
Jesus  Christ  ascended  to  heaven,  of  our  fathers  and 
mothers,  our  brothers  and  sisters,  all  our  brethren  of 
every  name,  not  only  here  but  everywhere  on  the 
face  of  the  earth.  We  celebrate  this  ordinance  by 
participation  in  common  symbols,  because  of  the  pur- 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  257 

pose  of  Christ  in  appointing  a  common  memorial 
that  belongs  to  all  Christian  people  everywhere.  It 
is  the  communion  of  the  Catholic  Church  which  we 
are  about  to  celebrate  to-night.  Therefore  we  have 
invited  here  not  merely  the  members  of  this  church, 
but  the  members  of  all  the  other  churches  that  have 
been  connected  with  this  church  and  those  who  have 
never  been  connected  with  us  ;  it  is  a  common  fellow- 
ship, an  ordinance  common  to  all  the  Saints  of  Christ 
on  the  earth.  It  is  common  to  those  who  have  gone 
home  to  their  rest,  who  have  celebrated  it  here  below 
in  the  ages  of  the  past,  and  common  to  us  who  are 
here  and  to  those  who  are  to  follow,  who  will  continue 
the  succession  "  until  He  come."  And  this  declara- 
tion of  the  Apostle  Paul  has  a  two-fold  application 
with  reference  to  the  Saints  who  receive  this 
ordinance.  We  are  called  upon  to  show  the  Lord's 
death  until  He  shall  come  to  each  one  of  us,  when  He 
shall  summon  us  to  our  home,  and  the  whole  church 
is  called  upon  to  celebrate  His  death  until  He  shall 
come  at  last  in  the  glory  of  His  Father  with  all  the 
Holy  Angels.  Surely  this  is  a  peculiar  ordinance ; 
it  is  a  peculiar  privilege  which  we  enjoy.  It  is  a 
blessed  communion  in  which  we  are  permitted  on 
this  special  occasion  to  participate.  As  I  look 
around  this  room  and  see  the  portraits  of  our  fathers, 
mothers,  brothers  and  sisters,  who  have  gone  home 
to  their  rest,  having  celebrated  here  this  ordinance 
which  the  Lord  gave  to  them,  I  am  reminded  of  the 
words  recorded  by  the  author  of  the  Epistle  to  the 
Hebrews  where  he  says,  "  Seeing  we  also  are  com- 


258  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

passed  about  with  so  great  a  cloud  of  witnesses  let  us 
lay  aside  every  weight."  It  seems  as  if  we  to-night 
were  here  surrounded  by  a  cloud  of  witnesses  of  our 
brethren  who  have  gone  home,  together  with  all 
the  Saints  of  the  Old  Testament  of  whom  the 
Apostle  speaks  in  the  nth  chapter  of  the  Hebrews, 
and  surely  we  are  celebrating  the  same  ordinance 
which  all  the  Christians  have  celebrated  since  our 
Saviour  came.  "  Let  us  then  run  with  patience  the 
race  that  is  set  before  us,  looking  unto  Jesus,"  and 
let  us  follow  Him  as  our  fathers  followed  Him  in  the 
hope  of  entering  in  due  time,  all  of  us,  upon  that 
eternal  communion,  where  the  table  is  never  with- 
drawn, in  the  world  of  rest  and  glory. 

LETTER  OF  REV.  J.  MONRO  GIBSON,  D.D., 

PASTOR  OF  ST.  JOHN'S  WOOD  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

LONDON,  ENGLAND. 

To  the  Congregation  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church: 

MY  DEAR  FRIENDS  :  It  is  with  the  keenest  disap- 
pointment that  I  learn  from  a  cable  message  just 
received  that  the  two  weeks  postponement  my  friends 
have  been  kindly  trying  to  arrange  has  proved  im- 
possible, and  that  therefore  I  am  compelled  to  relin- 
quish the  hope  of  being  with  you  at  the  Jubilee  Cele- 
bration. I  should  have  been  more  willing  to  put 
myself  to  any  amount  of  personal  inconvenience  to 
accomplish  it,  as  I  think  it  is  evident  from  my  offer- 
ing to  alter  all  my  plans  and  cancel  many  engage- 
ments for  the  ensuing  four  months,  so  as  to  enable 
me  to  reach  Chicago  in  June ;  but  the  interval  be- 


FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY.  259 

tween  the  I2th  and  26th  makes  all  the  difference 
between  possibility  and  impossibility.  I  must,  there- 
fore, content  myself  with  sending  you  a  letter  ex- 
pressive of  my  great  regret,  assuring  you  of  my 
heartiest  sympathy  with  you  on  this  great  and  glad 
occasion. 

The  retrospect  of  fifty  years  in  the  history  of  any 
live  congregation  is  fitted  to  stir  the  deepest  emo- 
tions ;  but  it  is  rare,  indeed,  that  the  opportunity  is 
ever  afforded  of  surveying  such  a  half  century  as  that 
which  passes  in  review  before  you  now.  In  1842  you 
raised  the  banner  of  the  Cross  in  an  out  of  the  way 
village  of  a  few  thousand  inhabitants ;  you  wave  it 
to-day  almost  on  the  same  spot,  but  in  a  city  of  more 
than  a  million  of  people.  All  the  while  you  have 
had  in  your  ranks  a  large  proportion  of  the  men  who 
have  made  Chicago.  And,  when  it  is  remembered 
that  the  majority  of  these  were  not  "  adherents  "  of 
the  congregation,  but  enlisted  heart  and  soul  in  its 
work  of  faith  and  labor  of  love,  men  who  would  be 
the  first  to  acknowledge  the  value  and  power  of  its 
formative  influence  upon  them,  we  can  see  that  the 
Second  Presbyterian  Church  has  not  only  been  a 
witness  for  Christ  through  all  these  years  of  marvel- 
ous expansion,  but  has  contributed  in  a  larger  degree 
than  any  of  us  can  well  imagine  to  the  moulding  and 
guiding  of  the  high  destinies  of  the  city  which  is  now 
the  great  central  metropolis  of  America.  Let  us  hope 
and  believe  that  you  will  do  better  work  than  ever  in 
the  years  to  come ;  but  greater  work  it  cannot  well  be ; 
for  it  is  impossible  in  the  nature  of  things  that  any 


260  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

single  congregation,  however  influential  and  However 
devoted,  can  ever  again  exert  such  influence  on  the 
city  as  you  have  done  in  the  fifty  years  that  are  gone. 

Some  of  the  pioneers  of  '42  are  happily  still  with 
you ;  may  they  be  spared  to  us  yet  for  many  a  year. 
I  congratulate  my  revered  predecessor,  his  amiable 
wife,  and  my  dear  old  friend  and  elder,  Mr.  T.  B. 
Carter,  on  what  they  see  of  the  fruit  of  their  early 
labors ;  and  though  only  these  three,  if  I  am  right, 
are  left  of  the  original  family,  it  is  matter  of  thank- 
fulness that  there  still  remain  some  of  those  who,  like 
Mr.  John  S.  Gould,  devoted  their  talents  to  the  work 
in  the  early  years,  and  have  ever  since  borne  the  bur- 
den and  heat  of  the  day.  To  all  the  pioneers  who 
survive  I  respectfully  present  my  warmest  congratu- 
lations, and  join  with  them  in  recalling  names  sacred 
and  dear,  too  numerous  to  try  to  mention,  of  those 
who  now  rest  from  their  labors,  but  whom  we  cannot 
think  of  as  absent  from  this  jubilee. 

I  regard  it  as  one  of  the  chief  privileges  of  my  life 
that  I  was  called  for  a  time  to  minister  to  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church,  Chicago.  I  hope  that  I  did 
some  service  to  the  congregation ;  but  I  can  testify 
that  the  congregation  did  much  for  me.  I  was  with 
you  in  weakness ;  and,  if,  as  I  believe,  I  have  done 
stronger  and  better  work  in  these  later  years,  it  is 
largely  due  to  the  stimulus  and  inspiration  of  having 
ministered  to  such  a  congregation,  enjoying  the 
while  such  encouragement  and  kindly  appreciation 
as  kept  me  from  being  too  much  depressed  by  the 
painful  sense  of  falling  short  of  the  requirements  of 


FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY.  26l 

the  position  which  was  never  long  absent  from  my 
mind.  I  take  this  opportunity  of  once  again  thank- 
ing all  my  old  friends  for  innumerable  kindnesses 
which  can  never  be  forgotten. 

I  shall  be  with  you  in  spirit ;  and  not  myself 
alone,  for  I  intend  to  observe  the  jubilee  here.  I  am 
sure  that  my  congregation  will  most  heartily  join  in 
the  thanksgivings  and  prayers  of  the  time  as  they  did 
on  a  similar  occasion  some  years  ago,  when  my  old 
congregation  in  Montreal  was  hallowing  the  fiftieth 
year.  And  it  will  be  unusual  if  at  that  season  we  do 
not  have  some  of  the  members  of  the  Second  Church 
worshipping  with  us  here.  May  I  then  be  allowed 
to  count  myself  among  the  celebrants,  to  be  for  that 
day  at  least  more  pastor  of  my  old  people  than  of  my 
London  congregation ;  and  perhaps  among  the  many 
memories  which  throng  your  hearts  you  will  find 
room  for  a  kind  thought  of  your  old  minister,  who 
would  be  with  you  if  he  could,  and  will  be  with  you 
as  he  can.  We  shall  pour  out  our  hearts  in  prayer 
for  you ;  and  I  am  sure  that  you  will  give  some  place 
in  your  supplications  to  a  fervent  petition  on  behalf 
of  St.  John's  Wood  Congregation  and  its  minister. 

I  have  had  to  write  currente  calamo,  as  the  time  is 
near,  and  not  till  this  very  day  did  I  give  up  all  hope 
of  crossing  the  sea  in  time.  But  I  am  sure  you  will 
excuse  all  deficiencies,  and  accept  the  love  the  letter 
carries  to  you  all — not  only  to  those  I  knew  in  the 
old  days,  but  to  the  dear  friends  who  have  come  in 
since,  more  especially  your  present  honored  and  be- 


262  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

loved  pastor,  whom  I  rejoice  to  reckon  among  my 
very  best  and  most  valued  friends. 

I  have  not  spoken  of  the  dark  side,  the  humbling 
thoughts  that  come  with  every  retrospect;  not  that  I 
do  not  keenly  feel  it  for  myself,  but  that  it  is  sure, 
though  perhaps  but  little  expressed  in  the  gladness 
of  the  jubilee,  to  present  itself  to  every  thoughtful 
mind  and  tender  heart.  The  good  Lord  forgive  us 
all,  and  lift  us  up  to  a  higher  plane  of  living,  that  our 
witness  to  him  may  be  clearer,  our  worship  more  sin- 
cere, our  work  better  and  more  enduring.  That  this 
may  be  a  season  of  renewed  dedication  on  the  part  of 
us  all  to  our  Lord  and  Master,  is  and  will  be  the 
prayer  of 

Your  affectionate  old  minister, 

27th  May,  1892.  J.   M.   GlBSON. 

ADDRESS  BY  DR.  BARROWS. 

"I  believe  in  God,  the  Father  Almighty,  Maker 
of  heaven  and  earth,  and  in  Jesus  Christ,  his  only 
Son,  our  Lord ;  in  the  Holy  Ghost  and  Holy  Catholic 
Church,  the  Communion  of  Saints," — the  Communion 
of  Saints,  which  means  not  only  the  fellowship  of 
saints  on  earth  with  saints  of  the  glorified,  but  also 
that  fellowship  in  which  we  rejoice  to-night,  the  lov- 
ing fellowship  of  Christian  church  with  Christian 
church,  Christian  heart  with  Christian  heart. 

This  church  has  for  fifty  years  been  strong  in 
righteousness  and  strong  for  the  truth,  and  it  has 
added  noble  names  to  the  gallery  of  Christian  saint- 
hood, because  it  has  been  truly  a  Christian  church, 


FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY. 


263 


that  is,  because  it  has  centered  and  gathered  all  its 
services  and  its  hopes  and  activities  about  the  truth 
that  is  symbolized  in  this  Communion  Table,  namely, 
that  God  so  loved  the  world  that  He  gave  His  only 
begotten  Son,  the  brightness  of  His  glory,  the  express 
image  of  His  person,  to  live  and  teach,  and  die,  the 
just  for  the  unjust,  and  to  rise  victorious  from  the 
grave,  and,  in  His  abounding  love,  He  has  sent 
forth  His  Spirit,  that  whosoever  believeth  in  Him 
shall  not  perish,  but  have  everlasting  life. 
Thomas  Arnold  has  said  that  the  difference  between 
Christianity  and  all  other  religions  is  this — other 
religions  show  us  man  seeking  God,  but  Christianity 
shows  God  seeking  man.  I  was  very  much  moved 
the  other  day  by  a  letter  which  came  to  me  from 
India,  from  one  who  is  holding  a  high  position  under 
the  British  government,  a  Magistrate  and  Commis- 
sioner, who  hopes  to  see  our  city  next  year,  who 
writes:  ''Within  my  limited  experience  I  have  in- 
variably found  that  civilization,  education,  training 
and  devices  of  all  sorts  have  miserably  failed  to 
raise  man  any  higher  than  his  present  level,  in  his 
fallen  nature.  One  thing  is  as  sure  as  that  the  hot 
sun  is  shining  over  us  this  warm  day,  namely,  that 
if  there  is  any  remedy  to  raise  fallen  man  it  is  in  the 
love  of  Jesus.  The  very  best  of  education  and 
civilization  lies  in  this  grand  secret,  love,  and  God  is 
love."  How  Jesus  toiled  to  convince  man  that  God 
is  seeking  for  the  lost.  Oh,  how  He  toiled  to  con- 
vince him  that  He  is  the  ordained  Saviour  of  man- 
kind. For  this  He  strewed  His  pathway  with 


064  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

beneficent  miracles  that  called  to  Him  the  attention 
of  the  most  stupid ;  for  this  He  touched  the  whitened 
skin  of  the  leper,  and  sat  at  meat  with  publicans  and 
permitted  the  loving  attentions  of  outcast  women; 
for  this  He  manifested  the  tenderest  regard  for  the 
most  fallen  and  the  most  despised ;  for  this  He  denied 
Himself  in  one  long  series  of  sacrifices,  from  the 
shadowing  of  His  divine  glory  in  the  stable  at  Beth- 
lehem to  the  culmination  of  the  :divine  tragedy  be- 
neath the  murky  skies  of  Calvary. 

No  wonder  that  while  the  world  moves  round,  the 
cross  stands  firm.  The  cross  is  the  holy  and  trans- 
figuring center  of  all  our  lives.  Therefore,  I  entreat 
you  from  this  hour,  when  the  supreme  attractiveness 
of  Christ  and  His  cross  has  again  been  set  before 
you,  to  take  this  Redeemer  with  a  new  loyalty  of  de- 
votion into  your  hearts,  and  let  Him  lead  you  through 
the  labors  and  sorrows  of  life,  and  /at  last  through  the 
gates  of  pearl  into  the  City  of  Peace,  where  you  shall 
find  that  all  the  felicities  of  heaven  sweep  in  bright 
unending  circle  round  the  Lamb  that  was  slain,  and 
where  the  music  of  your  eternal  gladness  shall  re- 
sound through  the  temple  of  God's  own  building, 
whose  walls  are  salvation  and  whose  gates  are  praise. 

ADDRESS  BY  THE  PASTOR. 

Dr.  Patterson  has  suggested  to  you  that  this  ordi- 
nance is  a  divine  ministry  of  memory.  My  heart  has 
been  touched  as  I  have  been  sitting  here  looking  about 
at  these  portraits,  mostly  of  those  who  are  gone,  our 
joy  and  our  pride ;  what  pathos  there  is  about  them. 


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265 


The  ministry  of  memory !  Fellowship  with  those 
who  have  gone  and  left  us  here !  Fellowship  with 
Jesus  Christ  on  the  eve  of  his  departure  and  cruci- 
fixion !  Dr.  Barrows  has  suggested  the  ministry  of 
fellowship,  of  the  communion  that  is  symbolized  and 
suggested  in  this  ordinance,  a  ministry  that  is 
typified  equally  here  to-night  by  the  presence  of  rep- 
resentatives of  many  churches,  and  by  this  letter  from 
our  dear  friend  in  London,  who  assured  us  that  there 
he  and  his  church  will  be  praying  for  us,  and  asks  us 
that  we  here  should  be  praying  for  them,  as  we  have 
been  doing.  The  church  universal  is  typified  here 
to-night.  We  are  all  one,  and  our  unity  is  solely  in 
Christ.  May  I  suggest,  in  a  word,  a  third  ministry, 
the  ministry  of  hope  that  roots  itself  in  memory  and 
in  our  Christian  fellowship,  that  roots  itself  even  in 
the  memory  of  that  pain  of  crucifixion  which  pre- 
ceded the  resurrection?  This  hope  was  testified  to  by 
our  Lord  Himself.  In  the  use  of  the  cup,  did  He 
not  promise  that  He  would  drink  it  again  with  His 
disciples  in  the  kingdom  of  glory  ?  Did  He  not  tell 
them  and  us,  as  we  have  heard  already,  that  in  keep- 
ing this  feast  we  should  be  proclaiming  His  death 
until  He  come  again  ?  We  look  back  to  Calvary  here, 
equally  looking  back  to  His  day  of  triumph  and  glory 
in  the  foundation  of  the  church  on  earth.  And  do 
we  not  look  forward  and  upward  as  our  eyes  glance 
around  at  these  portraits  and  remember  that  those 
who  are  represented  here  are  really  with  their  Pastor, 
loving  Friend  and  Saviour,  and  are  among  the  ma- 
jority, the  multitude  and  innumerable  company  who 


266  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

are  satisfied  in  His  likeness,  who  know  as  they  are 
known,  who  left  us  here  to  walk  in  the  twilight  and 
in  mystery,  and  who  watch  for  us  there  to  bring  us  at 
last  to  the  feet  of  the  King  once  scourged  and  broken 
for  us. 

Dear  friends,  we  have  been  looking  back  over 
fifty  years,  but  we  do  not  stop  here ;  this  is  not  our 
resting  place  nor  our  abode ;  that  is  much  higher 
even  than  this  sweet  and  happy  occasion.  God  grant 
that,  by  means  of  that  blood  typified  here,  the  blood 
that  cleanseth  from  all  sin,  we  may  be  made  worthy 
to  partake  with  the  saints  in  light ;  that  we  may  be 
called  to  abide  at  last  in  His  own  righteousness,  and 
that  there  we  may  gather  where  there  are  no  sad 
memories,  but  where  it  will  bring  only  an  increase 
of  perfect  satisfaction  to  look  back,  and  where  there 
will  be  no  separations  to  disturb  us  more.  Look  for- 
ward, look  upward,  seek  to  join  this  multitude,  so 
many  of  whom  sat  with  us  in  this  lower  place  and 
who  are  inexpressibly  dear  to  us. 

In  the  same  manner  as  He  took  the  bread  He  took 
likewise  the  cup,  and  said,  "  This  cup  is  the  new  cove- 
nant in  my  blood,  shed  for  many  for  the  remission  of 
sins  ;  drink  ye  all  of  it.  This  do  in  remembrance  of 
Me.  For  as.  often  as  ye  eat  this  bread  and  drink  the 
cup,  ye  proclaim  the  Lord's  death  till  He  come." 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  267 

FELLOWSHIP  MEETING. 

MONDAY  EVENING,   JUNE  2O,   1892. 

The  pastors  of  those  Presbyterian  Churches  whose 
organization  had  been  most  intimately  influenced  by 
the  Second  Church,  with  Dr.  Patterson,  the  Nestor  of 
Presbyterianism  in  the  Northwest,  were  invited  to 
address  this  meeting.  Of  those  invited,  Rev.  M. 
Woolsey  Stryker,  D.D.,  of  the  Fourth  Church  of 
Chicago,  and  Rev.  N.  D.  Hillis,  D.D.,  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Evanston,  Illinois,  were  un- 
able to  be  present. 

The  opening  prayer  was  offered  by  Rev.  Frank  O. 
Ballard,  of  Austin,  Illinois. 

REMARKS  BY  THE  PASTOR. 

As  pastor  of  this  Church,  I  want  to  tell  you  how 
heartily  we  of  the  Second  Church  welcome  you  all 
here  this  evening  as  representing '  the  sisterhood  of 
Chicago  Churches,  and  particularly  its  Presbyterian 
sisterhood.  We  are  most  deeply  gratified  in  these 
high  festival  days,  to  have  the  companionship  and 
congratulation  of  those  who  come  from  the  Mother 
Church  or  from  any  of  the  Daughter  Churches.  To 
the  members  of  this  Church  and  to  all  who  are  inter- 
ested in  her  history,  I  offer  my  felicitations  in  view 
of  what  they  are  to  hear  this  evening  from  those 
who  will  tell  us  either  something  of  her  career  in  the 
past  or  something  of  her  relations  in  the  present  and 
her  hopes  for  the  future. 

I  should  almost  as  soon  think  of  introducing  my 


268  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

father  to  my  mother  as  of  introducing  Dr.  Patterson 
to  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church.  He  is  at  home 
here,  he  is  in  the  home  which  he  had  a  chief  share  in 
making.  While  on  this  warm  night  the  other  speak- 
ers will  be  brief,  Dr.  Patterson,  now  as  always,  shall 
do  as  he  likes  in  this  place — since  he  likes  to  do  the 
apt  thing — and  speak  as  long  as  he  will.  He  is  to 
tell  us  something  about  the  beginnings  of  the  Second 
Church. 

DR.  PATTERSON'S  ADDRESS. 

It  will  not  be  possible  for  me,  within  the  eight 
minutes  allowed  me,  to  say  what  I  have  in  my  mind 
pertaining  to  the  beginning  of  this  church  and  con- 
gregation, which  is  the  subject  on  which  I  wish  to 
speak.  And  to  compress  my  remarks  within  reason- 
able limits  I  have  reduced  them  to  writing. 

It  occurred  providentially  in  the  year  1840  that 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  called  the  Rev.  (after- 
ward Dr.)  Flavel  Bascom  to  be  its  pastor,  and  that  he 
accepted  the  call  on  the  condition  that  he  should  be 
permitted  to  complete  his  engagement  in  the  service 
of  the  A.  H.  M.  Society,  which  expired  in  the  fall  of 
that  year.  This  led  to  my  temporary  occupancy  of 
the  pulpit  in  that  church  from  May  till  October,  1840. 
The  city  then  contained  a  population  of  about  4,300. 
During  the  five  months  of  my  labor  in  the  church  I 
naturally  became  acquainted  with  and  interested  in 
many  families.  In  the  course  of  the  next  year  and 
a  half  the  population  of  the  city  increased  by  more 
than  2,000,  and  the  First  Church  and  congregation 
had  a  corresponding  increase.  Also  during  that  time 


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269 


there  was  a  further  development  in  the  church  of 
extreme  abolitionism  and  of  sympathy  with  what  was 
then  styled  Oberlin  Perfectionism,  which  led  to  a 
distinct  and  visible  growth  of  aggressive  and  con- 
servative parties.  The  presence  and  operation  of 
these  causes  gave  raise  to  the  inquiry  among  the 
conservative  members  of  the  church  and  congrega- 
tion whether  it  would  not  be  conducive  to  the  interests 
of  peace  and  harmony  and  to  the  advancement  of  the 
Christian  cause  to  inaugurate  a  movement  for  the 
establishment  of  a  second  church,  where  the  more 
conservative  Presbyterian  families  of  the  city  might 
find  and  enjoy  a  quiet  religious  home  suited  to  their 
wishes  and  wants.  This  suggestion  was  emphasized 
by  the  fact  that  a  new  cjiurch  edifice  would  soon  be 
required  if  the  congregation  should  continue  to 
increase,  which  would  surely  bring  existing  differ- 
ences among  the  people  to  a  direct  issue,  unless  this 
were  averted  by  the  organization  of  a  second  church ; 
and  it  was  reinforced  by  the  further  fact  that  a  minis- 
ter could  possibly  be  then  obtained  with  whom  the 
conservative  families  were  already  acquainted  and 
whose  views  were  known  to  accord  with  theirs. 

Of  course,  these  reasons  could  not  have  prevailed 
if  the  controlling  influences  in  the  First  Church  had 
then  been  similar  to  what  they  now  are  and  have 
been  since  the  changes  of  1850  to  1852.  But  as  the 
conditions  then  were  the  movement  went  forward, 
application  was  made  to  the  Presbytery,  the  Second 
Church  was  duly  organized,  and  its  first  pastor  was 
called  on  the  ist  day  of  June,  1842. 


27O  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

The  church  when  first  formed  was  a  feeble  band 
as  to  numbers,  consisting  only  of  twenty-six  mem- 
bers. Three  elders  were  elected  and  installed, 
William  H.  Brown,  Benjamin  W.  Raymond,  and 
Dr.  Sylvester  Willard.  The  congregation  was  cor- 
respondingly small.  The  first  place  of  meeting  was 
the  city  saloon — not  a  liquor-selling  nuisance,  such 
as  now  bears  that  name — but  a  room  for  public 
assemblies,  which  was  the  second  story  of  a  building 
near  the  southeast  corner  of  Clark  and  Lake  streets. 
It  was  not  until  Sept.  13  that  the  congregation  had  a 
house  of  worship  which  it  could  call  its  own,  and  then 
its  sanctuary  was  a  wooden  structure,  40x60  feet, 
which,  with  two  additions,  continued  to  be  its  taber- 
nacle for  about  nine  years. 

I  have  said  that  the  church  was  at  first  conserva- 
tive in  regard  to  the  slavery  question  and  Christian 
doctrine.  It  was,  however,  always  decidedly  anti- 
slavery,  averse  to  revolutionary  action  on  that  sub- 
ject, and  moderately  Calvinistic,  while  in  sympathy 
with  what  was  called  new  school  theology.  On  those 
accounts  the  pastor  and  the  church  were  denounced 
from  the  beginning  as  pro-slavery,  and  it  was  openly 
claimed  that  all  the  piety  remained  in  the  mother 
church.  When,  in  the  fall  of  1842,  the  pastor  was 
ordained  and  installed,  a  feeling  of  discouragement 
was  experienced  by  him,  and  probably  by  his  people, 
on  several  accounts.  Very  few  accessions  had  as  yet 
been  made  to  the  original  twenty-six  members  of  the 
church,  while  the  First  Church  had  already  more 
than  filled  the  places  of  all  that  had  gone  from  it  into 


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271 


the  new  organization,  and  numbered  more  than  400 
members,  supported  by  a  large  congregation.  The 
pastor  of  the  new  church  had  been  brought  up  in  the 
country,  and  was  young  and  inexperienced.  A  vigor- 
ous abolition  paper  was  edited  by  a  member  of  the 
mother  church,  who  almost  every  week  had  some- 
thing to  say  in  disparagement  of  what  he  styled  the 
pro -slavery  congregation  and  its  "  dough- faced  min- 
ister." And  this  sort  of  misrepresentation  was  hav- 
ing its  effect  with  many  well-designing  people  who 
did  not  sympathize  with  the  political  party  by  whose 
spirit  those  assaults  were  inspired  and  directed.  The 
community  was  then  largely  made  up  of  young  and 
enthusiastic  citizens  from  the  Bast,  who  were  natu- 
rally zealous  for  progress  in  behalf  of  liberty  in  State 
and  Church,  and  whose  enthusiasm  was  not  moder- 
ated by  the  lessons  of  reflection  and  experience. 
Under  such  conditions  the  outlook  of  the  new  church 
was  not  specially  assuring  and  hopeful. 

But  there  were  on  the  other  side  grounds  of  en- 
couragement that  nerved  the  faith  of  the  pastor,  his 
intelligent  session,  and  the  thoughtful  membership  of 
the  church.  The  excitement  and  prejudices  of  the 
hour  would  surely  be  followed  by  strong  reaction 
when  the  facts  were  carefully  considered.  The  cry  of 
aristocracy  and  worldly  ambition  would  in  time  be 
silenced  by  steadfast  devotion  to  the  true  purposes  of 
a  Christian  church.  The  real  character  of  the  wise 
and  trustworthy  elders,  with  their  noble  wives,  would 
come  to  be  generally  recognized,  and  the  fruits  of 
their  constancy  in  official  and  personal  duty  would  be 


2/2  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

witnessed  more  and  more.  The  sincerity  and  con- 
sistency of  a  careful  and  God-fearing  membership, 
including  many  elect  women,  would  be  honored  by 
the  great  head  of  the  church  and  be  attended  by  His 
promised  benediction.  The  regular  and  honest  min- 
istrations of  a  pastor  intent  upon  the  preaching  of  a 
scriptural  and  practical  gospel,  neither  iultra-Calvin- 
istic  nor  tinged  with  rationalism,  could  not  prove  in 
vain.  And  the  earnest  prayers  of  even  a  few  believ- 
ing saints  could  not  remain  wholly  unanswered. 
But  above  all  the  purpose  and  courage  of  the  united 
session,  people,  and  pastor,  gave  promise  of  ultimate 
success  in  the  new  enterprise.  That  purpose  was  the 
firm  establishment  in  the  future  metropolis  of  the 
Northwest  of  a  church  and  congregation  that  would 
serve  as  an  inflential  and  impressive  example  of 
soundness  in  faith,  moderation  in  doctrine  and  meas- 
ures, charitable  and  judicious  administration,  broad 
Christian  benevolence,  and  steady  perseverance  in 
good  works,  without  either  weariness  or  impulsive 
adventure.  Or,  as  the  pastor  often  expressed  it,  the 
purpose  was  to  build  an  enduring  structure  on  a 
stable  foundation.  The  consciousness  of  such  a  pur- 
pose in  a  common  courage  seemed  to  us  in  those  dark 
days  a  sure  prophecy  of  achievements  that  would 
grow  broader  and  more  beneficent  in  years  and  gen- 
erations to  come. 

Under  the  influence  and  guidance  of  such  views 
and  aims,  the  session,  church,  and  pastor  pro- 
ceeded quietly  and  resolutely  in  their  work.  A  small 
but  well  organized  Sabbath-school  was  established ;  a 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  273 

meeting  for  prayer  and  conference  was  commenced 
and  held  Wednesday  evening  of  each,  week,  which  for 
years  was  attended  with  interest  by  a  number  at  least 
equal  to  that  of  the  entire  membership  in  the  church. 
A  voluntary  choir  was  formed  by  which  the  music 
was  led  with  commendable  success  on  the  Sabbath. 
Regular  public  worship,  with  the  preaching  of  the 
word  without  display  or  approach  to  sensationalism, 
was  maintained  twice  on  each  Lord's  day.  The 
Lord's  supper  was  administered  on  the  first  Sabbath 
of  every  alternate  month.  Accessions  to  the  church 
were  made  by  letter,  and  commonly  by  profession 
also,  at  each  communion.  The  causes  of  Christian 
benevolence  were  regularly  presented  to  the  congre- 
gation, and  liberally  sustained  by  the  people  from 
year  to  year.  The  first  mission  Sunday-school  ever 
organized  in  the  city  was  opened  and  sustained  chiefly 
by  members  of  this  church.  Occasional  revivals  in 
the  church  were  attended  by  considerable  additions 
to  its  stable  membership.  The  congregation  after  a 
few  years  grew  rapidly  in  numbers  and  influence. 
The  wise  and  efficient  session,  who  also  served  as 
deacons,  was  increased  or  reinforced  from  time  to 
time  by  the  addition  of  new  members,  who  contributed 
their  full  share  to  its  continued  reputation  and  char- 
acter as  an  unusually  strong  and  honored  Board  of 
Elders,  who  "ruled  well,"  and  never  cast  a  divided 
vote  during  the  nearly  thirty-two  years  of  my  pastor- 
ate. And  the  Board  of  Trustees,  who  served  the 
cot  Tegation  during  all  the  years  of  its  early  history, 
should  be  remembered  as  harmonious  in  council,, 


274  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

careful  and  judicious  in  planning,  and  energetic  in 
execution.  It  was  due  in  a  large  measure  to  their 
foresight  and  wisdom  that  the  site  of  the  fine  stone 
edifice  which  was  erected  on  the  corner  of  Washing- 
ton street  and  Wabash  avenue  was  procured  in  due 
season,  and  that  that  beautiful  sanctuary  was  completed 
and  dedicated  almost  without  incumbrance  in  January, 
1851.  That  event  may  properly  be  regarded  as  com- 
pleting the  history  of  the  beginnings  of  this  church 
and  congregation.  At  that  memorable  epoch  the 
enterprise  was  fully  recognized  as  having  attained  a 
complete  success,  and  the  church  as  occupying  an 
acknowledged  place  among  the  most  influential  and 
useful  of  her  sisters  in  the  West. 

This  hasty  and  imperfect  review  would  be  too 
seriously  defective  if  I  should  fail  to  say  anything 
respecting  the  relations  of  the  church  and  congrega- 
tion to  the  interest  of  our  denomination  in  the  North- 
west. It  has  been  already  intimated  that  we  set  out 
as  a  moderately  Calvinistic  Christian  body,  attached 
to  the  polity  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  as  gener- 
ously administered  by  what  was  then  and  for  many 
years  afterwards  known  as  the  New  School  branch  of 
the  church.  The  pastor  was  sustained  by  the  great 
majority  of  his  people  in  a  position  remote  from 
sympathy  with  a  Presbyterianism  claiming  over- 
shadowing powers  for  the  General  Assembly  and  ex- 
clusive orthodoxy  for  a  special  type  of  Calvinistic 
doctrine,  and  equally  removed  also  from  the  democracy 
of  a  church  government  without  any  recognized 
creed  or  symbols  of  a  common  faith.  Our  preference 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  2/5 

was  for  a  tolerant,  liberal  Presbyterianism.  We  were 
thus  compelled  to  stand  fast  against  systematic  en- 
deavors to  detach,  the  two  presbyteries  of  Northern 
Illinois,  with  one  of  which  we  were  at  the  first  con- 
nected, from  the  general  body  of  our  church  in  this 
country.  The  first  of  those  efforts  was  made  in  the 
summer  of  1842,  when  in  a  convention  of  Congrega- 
tionalists  and  Presbyterians  held  in  this  city  it  was 
voted,  with  only  two  nays,  to  absorb  all  the  Presby- 
terian and  Congregational  Churches  of  Northern 
Illinois  in  a  general  convention  like  that  of  Wisconsin. 
The  pastor  of  this  church,  then  only  a  licentiate, 
and  one  member  of  the  Presbytery  voiced  those  two 
negative  votes.  And  before  the  next  meeting  of  our 
Presbytery,  at  which  it  was  expected  the  scheme 
would  be  ratified,  we  procured  more  than  a  quorum 
who  promised  to  stand  with  us  as  a  Presbytery  on 
the  constitutional  basis.  The  result  was  that  the 
advocates  of  secession,  seeing  that  the  Presbytery 
would  still  live,  abandoned  their  project,  and  both 
Presbyterians  and  Congregationalists  continued  in 
their  former  relations.  A  few  years  later  a  similar 
movement  was  made  without  any  notice  to  the  pastor 
of  this  church  or  to  a  few  others  of  our  ministers 
who  sympathized  with  him.  But  he  learned  of  it  in 
season  to  expose  the  plot  in  the  same  paper  that  con- 
tained the  call  for  the  convention,  which,  conse- 
quently, was  not  held  at  all.  I  might  speak  of  other 
like  movements  in  relation  to  which  the  session, 
church  and  pastor  uniformly  stood  together.  Thus 
moderate  counsels  prevailed  in  our  early  ecclesiastical 


276  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

history.  The  anti-slavery  conflicts  were  safely  passed 
through  till  1857,  when  the  Southern  churches  with- 
drew from  our  Assembly  and  our  troubles  in  that 
direction  were  at  an  end. 

The  separation  between  Congregationalists  and 
Presbyterians,  as  has  been  said,  culminated  in  Chi- 
cago in  1851-52.  During  that  trying  period  the 
Second  Presbyterian  Church  calmly  held  fast  its 
moderately  conservative  position.  The  First  Church 
was  sifted  by  the  withdrawal  of  its  disturbing  ele- 
ments, and  approached  the  type  of  the  Second  under 
the  lead  of  its  noble  pastor.  Dr.  Harvey  Curtis,  who 
was  followed  by  the  honored  and  still  lamented  Dr. 
Z.  M.  Humphrey.  The  Third  Church  was  depleted 
almost  to  extinction  by  a  violent  rupture  which 
resulted  in  the  organization  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church.  At  that  critical  epoch  it  was  confi- 
dentially predicted  that  in  ten  years  there  would  not 
be  a  Presbyterian  church  left  in  Chicago.  But  the 
intense  denominational  feeling  of  that  day  on  both 
sides  was  soon  abated  and  Christian  comity  was 
re-established,  as  it  has  been  continued  to  this  time. 
The  Second  Church  grew  apace,  and  sent  out  colony 
after  colony  to  the  South  and  the  North.  It  bore  the 
chief  part  in  the  establishment  of  the  Lake  Forest 
University,  contributed  generously  toward  the  found- 
ing of  the  City  Orphan  Asylum  and  the  Home  for 
the  Friendless,  increased  largely  its  contributions  to 
the  Bible,  home  and  foreign  Missionary  and  Sunday- 
school  causes,  and  took  the  leading  part  in  the  rais- 
ing of  a  synodical  fund  for  church  erection,  which 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  277 

stimulated  like  efforts  in  the  N.  S.  Synods  of  Mis- 
souri and  Iowa,  and  led  ultimately  to  the  procurement 
of  the  General  Assembly's  permanent  fund  of  $100,- 
ooo  for  the  same  object,  which  is  to-day  blessing  so 
many  feeble  congregations  throughout  the  length 
and  breadth  of  our  land. 

I  have  only  to  add  that  this  church  has  continued 
to  be  directed  by  the  counsels  of  its  judicious  and 
efficient  session  enlarged  from  period  to  period ;  has 
been  conducted  safely  through  some  seasons  of  dan- 
ger, especially  in  connection  with  its  removal  from 
its  former  location,  and  its  re-establishment  in  this 
new  and  splendid  house  of  worship ;  and  has  been 
signally  blessed  in  the  calling  and  labors  of  two 
later  pastors  of  distinguished  ability  and  devotion  to 
their  work,  of  whom  one  is  now  an  honored  leader  in 
the  great  metropolis  and  the  Presbyterian  Church  of 
England,  and  the  other  is  present,  at  the  head  of  this 
church,  its  servant  for  Jesus'  sake,  and  among  the 
most  learned,  influential  and  useful  of  all  his  minis- 
terial brethren  of  any  name  in  this  great  and  won- 
derful growing  city. 

I  am  here  to-night,  my  brethren  beloved,  a  repre- 
sentative of  a  former  generation,  of  whom  only  two 
original  members  of  this  church  remain  in  the  com- 
munion of  saints  on  the  earth.  I  have  not  given 
way  to  pessimism  in  the  lapse  of  the  many  years 
that  have  passed  since  I  became  the  pastor  of  your 
fathers  and  mothers.  I  have  witnessed  with  great 
satisfaction  the  continued  progress  and  power  of  this 
church  and  congregation  since  I  resigned  this,  my 


278  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

only  pastoral  charge,  eighteen  years  ago.  Most 
heartily  do  I  thank  the  Great  Head  of  the  church, 
on  this  fiftieth  anniversary  of  your  history,  for  your 
Christian  steadfastness  and  noble  work  during  the 
half  century  now  gone ;  and  I  congratulate  you  on 
the  bright  prospects  of  enlarging  usefulness  that 
encourage  you  to-day  to  press  on  in  well-doing  till 
others  shall  take  your  places  and  transmit  the  blessed 
inheritance  to  still  later  generations.  After  another 
half  century  nearly  all  of  us  who  are  here  to-night 
will,  we  trust,  be  together  in  our  Father's  house  of 
many  mansions  above,  where  so  many  of  our  fathers 
and  mothers  and  brothers  and  sisters  and  children 
are  already  at  home  forever.  Let  us  all  be  henceforth 
resolute  followers  of  them  who  through  faith  and 
patience  have  inherited  the  promises. 

Dr.  McPherson :  You  are  now  in  the  right  mood 
precisely  to  hear  Dr.  Barrows,  since  he  is  the  pastor 
of  that  church  which  has  just  been  described  to  you. 
If  I  may  change  his  own  introduction  of  myself 
sometime  ago,  I  will  present  him  as  the  father-in-law 
of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  because  the  First 
Church  is  its  mother.  I  am  glad  to  introduce  him  to 
you,  and  to  greet  him  with  you,  as  my  friend.  He 
will  tell  us  something  of  the  influences  that  through 
the  mother  church  have  blessed  us  during  these  fifty 
years. 

ADDRESS  BY  DR.  BARROWS. 

To  condense  into  eight  minutes  the  thoughts  sug- 
gested by  this  grand  jubilee,  and  the  loving  con- 


FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY.  279 

gratulations  of  my  own  heart  and  the  earnest  salu- 
tations of  the  Mother  and  Grandmother  Church  of 
our  city,  is  a  sublime  effort  at  compression,  which 
may  well  excite  the  envy  and  despair  of  any  hydraulic 
machine.  With  the  same  cordiality  with  which  Dr. 
McPherson  brought  your  congratulations  to  us  on 
our  fiftieth  anniversary,  nine  years  ago,  yes,  with 
added  warm-heartedness,  for  we  know  him  better  to- 
night than  you  knew  me  at  that  time,  I  offer  to  the 
venerated  first  pastor  of  the  Second  Church,  and  to 
those  who  have  succeeded  him,  and  to  all  this  con- 
gregation the  proud  and  affectionate  salutations  of 
your  maternal,  and  yet  sisterly  neighbor,  who,  from 
her  lofty  steeple  sees  no  object  so  well  beloved  in  all 
Chicago  as  her  beautiful  and  bountiful  daughter,  the 
music  of  whose  bell  calls  her  own  belated  worshipper 
to  the  house  of  prayer.  Although  I  am  an  earnest 
Democrat  of  the.  Tammany  type,  I  regret  the  pres- 
ence in  our  city  at  just  this  time  of  the  Democratic 
National  Convention,  for  it  has  crowded  out  of  our 
enterprising  dailies,  that  full  report  of  the  noble  his- 
torical sermon  of  yesterday,  which  I  had  hoped  to 
make  the  basis  of  a  few  serious  remarks  to-night. 
That  being  impossible,  I  content  myself,  in  part,  by 
recording  my  own  obligations  to  this  Church.  My 
life  has  been  bound  up  more  closely  with  yours  than 
you  probably  realize.  Not  only  have  I  known  you 
and  your  good  works  for  ten  years  and  more,  preach- 
ing often  for  you,  and  meeting  you  in  scenes  of  glad- 
ness and  of  sorrow,  contributing  now  and  then  from 
the  First  Church  a  singer  to  your  choir  and  a  com- 


28o  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

municant  to  your  Church-roll,  but  I  recall  other  facts 
of  remarkable  personal  interest.  On  the  day  I  was 
married,  Dr.  Gibson  was  installed  over  the  Second 
Church,  a  fact  which  perhaps  explains  my  wife's 
peculiar  liking  for  this  people  and  her  preference  for 
Dr.  McPherson  as  her  spiritual  adviser.  Dr.  Patter- 
son was  a  chief  means  of  my  coming  to  Chicago,  and 
Dr.  McPherson  has  been  one  of  the  chief  means  of 
keeping  me  here.  He  has  saved  my  life  by  taking 
on  his  broad  shoulders  all  my  responsibilities  to  the 
Presbytery.  An  Elder  of  the  Second  Church,  brother 
Ralston,  is  my  nearest  neighbor,  and  I  am  glad  to 
have  my  outgoings  and  incomings  watched,  with 
affectionate  anxiety,  by  one  of  the  noblest  of  my 
fellow  Cleveland  Democrats.  But  the  services  have 
not  been  all  on  your  side.  The  Second  Church 
marries  a  good  deal  in  the  First,  and  makes  valuable 
captures.  When  one  of  your  young  men  wants  to  get 
a  perfect  wife,  he  takes  one  trained  by  us,  and 
although  Mrs.  Barrows  gets  the  wedding  fee,  our  ad- 
vantage ends  there.  The  young  man  privately  in- 
forms me  that  he  must  take  his  bride  to  a  pew  here, 
as  otherwise  Dr.  McPherson  had  threatened  him  with 
excommunication,  followed  by  decapitation.  Then 
for  a  year  or  two  I  promised  to  each  one  of  the  chil- 
dren in  my  Sunday-school  a  beautiful  Bible  for  those 
who  went  to  preaching  service  every  Sunday  in  the 
year.  Their  attendance  was  recorded  in  a  little  book 
I  gave  them.  Examining  these  books  at  the  end  of 
the  year,  I  found  that  two  of  the  boys  had  gone  every 
Sunday  when  in  the  city,  to  hear  the  Rev.  Simon 


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J.  McPherson,  D.D.  But  I  had  to  give  them  these 
costly  Bibles  all  the  same.  If  this  hiring  boys  to 
hear  your  pastor  preach  does  not  show  my  love  to 
him  and  entitle  me  to  a  pension  out  of  your  e'normous 
funds,  then  I  have  studied  moral  philosophy  in  vain. 
I  think,  brethren,  that  by  our  mutual  services  we 
have  illustrated  the  ethics  of  Confucius,  who,  when 
asked  to  sum  up  human  duty  in  one  word,  replied, 
"Reciprocity"  This  was  of  course  prophetic  of  that 
plank  of  the  Minneapolis  platform,  on  which  I  and 
my  fellow-Republicans  are  proud  to  stand. 

But  more  seriously,  I  am  grateful  that  such  a  man 
as  Dr.  McPherson  has  given  the  great  force  of  his  life 
to  the  work  of  the  Christian  ministry  in  Chicago.  We 
have  marked  his  wisdom  and  his  wit,  his  growth  in  ten- 
derness through  affliction  and  his  growth  in  earnest- 
ness through  the  Spirit  of  God.  He  has  added  pro- 
digiously to  the  higher  and  better  life  of  Chicago. 
The  Rev.  Samuel  P.  Jones,  with  whom  he  and  I 
once  stood  through  much  stormy  weather,  used  to 
say,  "  When  McPherson  gets  steam  under  his  biler, 
he  will  be  the  biggest  preacher  in  America."  We 
who  have  heard  him  talk  for  city  evangelization  know 
that  the  steam  has  been  let  on !  The  worst  thing  I 
ever  heard  about  him  was  spoken  by  my  good  mother. 
Last  summer  she  was  greatly  troubled  with  insomnia. 
One  morning  she  came  to  me  and  said,  "John,  I  have 
learned  how  to  get  sleepy  before  going  to  bed.  I 
have  only  to  read  one  page  of  your  friend  Dr.  Mc- 
Pherson's  historical  fiction,  '  The  Monk  and  the 
Knight!'" 


282  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

Brethren,  when  I  review  such  a  half-century  as 
yours,  when  I  think  of  the  prayer  and  toil  which  my 
dear  friend  Mr.  Carter  has  shared  with  this  church 
for  fifty  years,  when  I  think  of  the  studious  labors,  the 
many-sided  abilities  and  the  all-sided  faithfulness  of 
such  a  man  as  your  first  pastor,  when  I  think  of  the  six 
splendid  years  of  Dr.  Gibson,  when  I  try  to  measure 
the  brain  power  and  the  heart  power  which  Dr.  McPher- 
son  has  put  into  his  nearly  ten  fruitful  years  of  toil, 
when  I  think  of  the  noble  women,  praised  in  all  our 
churches,  who  have  here  labored  for  Christ's  kingdom 
on  earth  and  have  been  translated  to  the  feet  of  the 
King  in  glory,  when  I  remember  what  wise  and  noble 
men  your  elders  have  been,  some  of  them  famed  as 
teachers,  lawyers,  physicians  and  men -of  business, 
when  I  try  to  estimate  the  services  rendered  by  your 
superintendents,  recorded  in  the  beautiful  souvenir 
program  of  yesterday  afternoon,  from  Willard, 
Brown  and  Henderson  to  Ralston,  Hill,  Page  and 
Harvey,  when  I  think  of  the  lambs  whom  you  have 
taught  to  love  the  good  Shepherd,  when  I  remember 
the  names  of  those  who,  in  this  congregation,  have 
been  leaders  in  our  municipal  life  and  have  helped  to 
shape  its  colossal  upbuilding,  contributing  hundreds 
of  thousands  to  charity  and  hundreds  of  thousands 
more  to  schools  and  universities,  when  I  recall,  to 
mention  only  one  name,  the  significance  and  benefi- 
cence of  such  a  career  as  John  Crerar's,  and  when  I 
reflect  on  those  who  have  been  useful  and  noble  ser- 
vants of  Christ,  going  from  this  Church  to  the  Fourth 
Church,  to  the  New  England  Church,  to  those  in 


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283 


Kenwood,  Hyde  Park,  Lake  Forest  and  elsewhere,  I 
am  profoundly  convinced  that  your  jubilee  is  one  of 
vast  significance,  and  that  the  events  recalled  by  your 
pastor's  sermon  will  be  deemed  historic  by  the  future 
chronicler  of  the  Christian  life  of  Chicago  as  the 
record  of  the  first  fifty  years  of  one  of  the  earliest 
Churches  in  Rome,  Constantinople  or  Alexandria 
would  to-day  be  exceedingly  valuable  to  the  ecclesias- 
tical historian.  Equally  so  will  be  your  record  which 
dates  from  the  youth  of  Chicago,  a  city  not  to  be  sur- 
passed by  any  capital  built  on  the  Bosphorus,  the 
Nile  or  the  Tiber.  The  story  of  your  Church  life 
quickens  hope  for  our  city  and  for  America.  It  fur- 
nishes a  great  chapter  in  the  evidences  of  the  truth 
and  power  of  the  Christian  Gospel. 

In  the  name  of  the  Old  First  Church,  three  of 
whose  seven  pastors  are  still  living,  I  bring  you 
Christian  greetings ;  and  to  Dr.  McPherson  I  say, 
"  May  the  blessing  of  God  abide  with  you  and  your 
wife  and  children.  May  the  joy  and  fruitfulness 
of  your  service  increase  as  the  years  go  by.  May  it 
be  long  before  you  leave  Chicago,  even  for  New  York, 
Princeton  or  Heaven ;  and  when  a  successor  stands 
in  your  pulpit,  may  it  be  some  Oscar  or  John  Mc- 
Pherson altogether  worthy  to  call  you  his  father." 

Dr.  McPherson  :  I  take  pleasure  in  introducing  to 
you  as  the  next  speaker,  a  successful  pastor  of 
churches  in  four  states.  He  began  in  Philadelphia — 
good  place  to  start  from — he  went  next  to  Indianapo- 
lis where  great  men  are  made  these  days ;  then  he 
went  up  to  Boston,  and  he  has  reached  the  climax  of 


284  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

his  great  career  in  Chicago  as  the  pastor  of  the  larg- 
est English-speaking  Presbyterian  Church  west  of  the 
Allegheny  Mountains,  Rev.  Dr.  Withrow. 

ADDRESS  BY  REV.  J.   L.   WITHROW,  D.D., 
PASTOR  OF  THE  THIRD  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH,   CHICAGO. 

When  I  was  asked  to  take  a  part  in  these  fellow- 
ship services  to-night,  Dr.  McPherson  said  there 
could  be  but  eight  minutes  given  to  any  speaker,  and 
he  told  me  there  were  eight  or  nine,  I  don't  know  but 
ten,  important  speakers.  As  our  eloquent  brother 
who  has  just  sat -down  spoke  twelve  minutes  instead 
of  eight — I  knew  he  could  not  stop  in  eight,  you  can- 
not stop  a  speaker  like  that  under  twelve  min- 
utes— I  knew  I  should  have  to  give  him  four  minutes, 
and  therefore  I  shall  only  take  five.  As  I  had  no 
reminiscences,  I  thought  I  would  say  something  in 
a  general  way,  on  a  topic  that  would  reach  us  all, 
Presbyterians  and  the  Common  Faith. 

In  the  proper  apprehension,  the  Communion  of 
Saints  in  the  Church  is  chiefly  a  thing  of  the  imagina- 
tion. People  think  of  it  rather  as  a  matter  of  faith 
than  of  fact. 

True,  it  is  a  tenet  of  the  oldest  Christian  Creed, 
and  we  recite  it  in  tireless  repetition:  "I  believe  in 
the  Holy  Catholic  Church,  the  Communion  of  Saints." 
But  ask  the  world  at  large  for  its  idea  of  the  practice 
of  this  sweetly  charitable  profession,  and  the  reply 
may  not  be  highly  complimentary  to  the  fervor  of 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  285 

brotherly  love  among  avowed  believers.  Our  conten- 
tions are  noted  and  sharply  criticized. 

Half  the  newspapers  in  town  hurry  to  report  a 
fight  in  one  church  and  spare  no  space  in  writing  it 
up;  while  a  mere  mention  is  given,  if  even  notice  is 
taken,  of  the  kindly  fellowship  which  prevails  in 
many  churches.  Much  also  is  made  if  any  one  de- 
murs when  the  doctrines  or  order  of  the  Christian 
Church  are  attacked,  and  the  charge  of  bigotry  and 
of  fanaticism  and  love  of  fighting  is  laid  against  many 
a  man  who  no  more  deserves  it  than  a  soldier  merits 
defamation  when  defending  his  post. 

This  might  not  occur  if  the  life  of  the  church 
were  better  understood  beyond  its  own  confines.  The 
world  does  not  discern  the  demands  of  our  disciple- 
ship.  And  it  is  no  aspersion  to  say  that  those  not 
identified  with  Christ  cannot  appreciate  the  sacred- 
ness  of  the  trust  committed  to  those  who  profess  and 
call  themselves  Christians.  The  latter  are  in  a  rela- 
tion to  prize  the  sensitive  sanctities,  and  to  perceive 
the  perils  to  the  life  of  the  church  as  the  world  at 
large  cannot. 

And  if  in  defending  and  conserving  their  char- 
tered rights  and  cherished  interests  Christians  some- 
times exhibit  an  unloveliness  from  which  charity 
turns  its  face  in  sorrow,  yet  it  remains  that  in  many 
things  they  are  united  by  tenacious  ties.  There  is  a 
common  faith  among  all  denominations  to-day,  as 
certainly  as  there  was  before  the  body  of  the  believers 
was  divided  by  schism  into  sects.  All  use  the  same 
Bible.  All  bow  to  the  same  Lord.  All  depend  upon 


286  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

the  same  Divine  mercy.  All  look  up  for  heaven's 
help.  All  hope  for  everlasting  life.  But,  more  than 
the  satisfaction  which  this  affords,  we  have  joy  in 
thinking  that  Presbyterians  hold  more  of  the  com- 
mon faith  than  any  branch  of  the  household  of 
believers.  For  is  not  our  confession  an  osculatory 
circle  which  touches  the  curves  of  more  creeds  than 
does  any  other  that  is  called  Christian  ?  Presbyte- 
rians are  not  Unitarians.  But  so  far  as  the  latter 
believe  in  "  the  Father  of  Mercies  and  the  God  of  all 
comfort,"  we  are  one  with  them  in  worship  of  a  one 
God  and  Father  of  all,  who  is  above  all  and  through 
all  and  in  you  all."  If  the  disciple  of  Socinus  stop 
short  of  ascribing  absolute  deity  to  the  Son  of  Man, 
we  can  go  with  them  heartily  in  their  devotion  to  the 
man  Christ  Jesus,  as  the  sinless  example  of  the  suf- 
fering self-sacrifice  which  is  saving  the  world.  It  is 
our  creed  as  surely  as  it  is  theirs,  that  "  we  are  saved 
by  His  life."  Presbyterians  are  separated  from  Uni- 
versalists  by  "  a  great  gulf  fixed  "  in  the  matter  of 
moral  destiny.  But  when  saying  nothing  of  retribu- 
tion these  brethren  of  origin  announce  and  empha- 
size the  love  of  God  as  the  greatest  thing  in  theology, 
we  assent  in  common  terms,  and  are  busy  at  present 
in  setting  up  that  article  of  faith  in  small  capitals 
in  our  venerable  Westminster  confession. 

The  gentle  followers  of  George  Fox  are  nearer  to 
us  in  their  Puritan  ancestry  than  to  any  other 
company  of  Christians.  The  difference  between 
the  "plain  speech"  and  ungarnished  ordinances  of 
Quaker  Christians  and  the  simplicity  of  pristine 


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Presbyterianisin  was  inconspicuous.  They  eschewed 
phylacteries  and  forms.  So  did  Presbyterians.  Their 
worship  was  conducted  in  dignified  solemnity ;  and 
not  a  few  of  our  Presbyterian  prayer-meetings  are 
quiet  enough  to  pass  for  a  Quaker  meeting,  as  you 
may  have  noticed  yourself.  Those  decorous  descend- 
ants of  William  Penn  do  not  appreciate  a  thoroughly 
wrought  system  of  theology.  But  relying  as  they 
do  mostly  upon  the  work  and  indwelling  of  the 
Divine  Spirit,  they  rest  upon  a  truth  which  is  not 
only  common  to  them  and  us,  but  on  one  that  is  as 
dear  to  us  as  it  can  be  to  them.  If  it  was  a  true  say- 
ing of  our  illustrious  Dr.  Hodge,  homo  multarum 
literarum,  that  Armenians  are  sure  to  turn  Calvinists 
when  they  sink  upon  their  knees  and,  bewailing  their 
moral  depravity,  acknowledge  dependence  upon  the 
Divine  Sovereignty,  then  are  we  not  safe  in  saying 
that  our  Methodist  brethren  have  more  Presbyterian- 
ism  than  Armenianism  in  them,  because  they  are  a 
famous  folk  for  spending  time  on  their  knees. 

Then  as  to  our  Baptist  brethren.  They  hold  as 
much  of  all  that  is  central  and  essential  as  any  of 
us.  But  it  is  kept  so  seclusively,  and  one  has  to 
wade  through  such  deep  waters  to  reach  it,  that  we 
rather  think  we  offer  the  seeker  a  desirable  advantage 
by  making  it  so  easy  for  any  one  to  become  a  sharer 
of  the  blessings  of  the  gospel  with  us.  The  doors 
to  our  supper  room  are  built  wide,  and  the  welcome 
awaiting  those  who  enter  is  so  hospitable  that  but 
one  question  is  asked :  Is  your  heart  in  love  with  the 
King's  Son?  No  searching  tests  are  made  as  to 


288  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

theological  knowledge.  No  subscription  to  technical 
creeds  is  a  condition  for  participating  in  the  bene- 
fits promised.  We  have  no  aristocracy  of  ministerial 
orders,  and  no  scale  of  indulgences  on  sale  for  sin- 
ners ;  especially  no  gracious  dispensation  or  priestly 
permission  for  rich  people  and  socially  elect  souls  to 
do  what  we  will  not  suffer  common  and  lowly  Chris- 
tians to  do.  So  that  on  the  whole,  not  denying  our 
many  misdeeds  and  defects,  we  believe  our  beloved 
church  is  as  large-hearted  and  generous-minded  as 
any  that  confess  as  part  of  the  faith  the  Communion 
of  Saints. 

Dr.  McPherson:  Dr.  Patterson  was  the  first 
President  of  the  Lake  Forest  University.  Dr.  Mc- 
Clure  is  now  its  Acting  President,  and  we  are  very 
glad  to  welcome  him  here  and  to  listen  to  him. 

ADDRESS  BY  REV.  J.  G.  K.  McCLURE,  D.D., 
PASTOR  OF  THE  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH,  LAKE  FOREST,  ILLINOIS. 

Lake  Forest  rejoices  to-night  in  this  opportunity 
to  speak  her  gratitude  and  affection  to  her  Mother, 
the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago.  The 
representatives  of  other  places  and  other  organiza- 
tions may  well  dwell  proudly  on  the  close  alliance 
that  exists  between  them  and  this  church.  But  it 
seems  to  us  of  Lake  Forest  as  though  the  ties  which 
united  us  with  this  Church  were  especially  strong. 
There  are  three  Lake  Forests,  Lake  Forest  the  place, 
Lake  Forest  the  Church,  and  Lake  Forest  the  Uni- 
versity. Lake  Forest  the  place,  as  an  idea  and  as  a 


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fact,  originates  within  this  church  life.  Lake  Forest 
the  Church  received  its  first  membership  and  guid- 
ance from  this  church.  Lake  Forest  the  University 
was  organized  and  started  by  the  men  and  women  of 
this  same  church.  A  threefold  cord  is  not  quickly 
broken.  Lake  Forest  the  place,  Lake  Forest  the 
Church  and  Lake  Forest  the  University  weave  their 
common  love  for  this  Church  into  one  white  cord  of 
loyal  devotion,  whose  strength  is  as  lasting  as  appre- 
ciative memory. 

It  was  in  the  lecture  room  of  this  Church,  as  it 
then  stood  on  Wabash  avenue  in  1856,  that  officers 
of  this  Church  effected  an  organization  known  as  the 
u  Lake  Forest  Association,"  from  which  developed  all 
the  Lake  Forest  interests. 

As  early  as  1853  members  of  this  congregation 
and  others  discussed  this  idea  of  having  an  Educa- 
tional Institution  of  a  high  grade  in  this  rapidly 
developing  Northwest.  That  discussion  brought 
about  a  plan  of  operations  by  which  such  an  institu- 
tion could  be  projected.  Mr.  T.  B.  Carter  drew  up 
the  original  papers.  They  were  submitted  to  a  meet- 
ing held  in  the  lecture  room  February  26th,  1856. 
Trustees  were  elected.  A  committee  was  named  to 
draft  Articles  of  Association.  Two  days  later,  on 
February  28th,  1856,  the  Articles  of  Association  of 
this  Lake  Forest  Association  were  reported  in  the 
lecture  room.  Seventy -three  hundred  acres  of  land 
were  soon  bought.  Fifty  acres  were  immediately  set 
apart  for  the  University,  divided  proportionately  ac- 
cording to  the  anticipated  needs  of  the  College,  the 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


Seminary  and  the  Academy.  The  remaining  property 
was  distributed  on  an  agreed  basis  between  the  Uni- 
versity and  the  Association,  and  then,  under  the 
management  of  men  whose  names  long  figured  here 
in  prominence,  movement  at  Lake  Forest  began.  The 
place,  naturally  beautiful,  with  its  forests  and  ravines, 
was  laid  out  as  skillfully  as  the  best  landscape  gard- 
ening could  plan.  A  charter  was  secured  from  the 
State  Legislature  for  the  University  February  i3th, 
1857.  The  first  building,  an  Academy,  was  erected 
in  1858.  The  church  was  organized  July  24th,  1859, 
an  Elder  from  this  church  being  the  Elder  represent- 
ing Presbytery  on  the  occasion  of  the  organization. 

Thus  the  conversations  held  again  and  again  in 
Dr.  Patterson's  study  in  this  church,  took  to  them- 
selves a  concrete  form,  and  the  City  of  Lake  Forest, 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Lake  Forest  and 
the  Lake  Forest  University  assumed  place  as  factors 
in  the  world's  good. 

All  these  forces  were  put  in  operation  by  the 
Second  Church  more  than  thirty  years  ago.  What 
message  comes  back  from  them  to-night  ?  From  the 
place  this  message,  that  for  all  these  years  the  people 
who  have  dwelt  in  her  attractive  homes  have  pre- 
served a  high  degree  of  moral  and  religious  earnest- 
ness. Piety  has  been  known  among  her  citizens. 
Thoughtfulness  has  marked  her  life.  Intemperance 
has  been  kept  as  far  away  as  the  forbidding  of  the 
sale  of  all  intoxicants  can  keep  it.  She  has  been  a 
safe  and  a  happy  place  for  those  to  live  in  who  fear 
God  and  love  the  brotherhood  of  man. 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY. 


From  the  Church  this  message  comes,  that  owing 
perhaps  to  some  peculiar  impress  received  in  her  or- 
ganization, she  has  continued  her  services  without 
the  loss  of  a  single  Sabbath,  through  cold  and  through 
heat  ;  from  the  very  first  has  opened  her  doors  with 
sympathy  and  love  to  every  resident,  whatever  his 
denominational  preference,  and  has  tried  to  make  her 
services  helpful  to  every  heart,  in  the  desire  to  know 
and  serve  the  Father  of  us  all.  The  membership  of 
this  Church  and  this  congregation,  removed  as  they 
are  twenty-eight  miles  from  Chicago,  have  never 
ceased  to  be  in  active  and  personal  co-operation  with 
all  the  Missionary,  Hospital  and  Benevolent  Institu- 
tions of  Chicago,  as  well  as  with  those  of  Lake 
County,  in  which  the  church  stands. 

The  Church  of  Lake  Forest  to-day  worships  within 
the  very  stones  that  formed  the  edifice  known  as  "  the 
spotted  church."  The  walls  of  the  spotted  church 
remained  standing  during  the  great  fire  in  spite  of 
the  fact  that  everyone  expected  that  they,  with  their 
pockets  of  oil,  would  burn  more  quickly  than  any  other 
building  material.  In  due  time  those  walls  were  torn 
down  and  later  the  stones  were  moved  to  Lake  Forest. 

There  at  its  central  spot,  constructed  again  into 
church  form,  stand  the  very  stones  within  which 
Lake  Forest  was  dreamed,  discussed,  developed. 
Children  that  were  baptized  within  those  stones  in 
Chicago  now  bring  their  children  to  be  baptized 
within  them  at  Lake  Forest.  Parents  that  sat  alone 
at  Communion  within  these  stones  in  Chicago,  now 
sit  in  company  with  their  grown  children  within  them 


292  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

at  Lake  Forest.  And  that  church  is  gradually 
returning  strength  to  the  mother  Church,  for  she  is 
sending  back  those  who  have  been  trained  in  her 
activities  to  be  your  earnest  and  efficient  workers. 

From  the  University  the  message  is  that  she 
has  now  besides  her  grounds  and  increasing  build- 
ings, a  substantial  endowment ;  that  her  students  at 
Lake  Forest  numbered  this  last  year  three  hundred 
and  thirty-nine,  while  her  students  in  the  Depart- 
mental Schools  in  Chicago — the  Chicago  College  of 
Law,  Rush  Medical  College  and  the  Chicago  College 
of  Dental  Surgery — numbered  over  twelve  hundred. 

Lake  Forest  as  a  University,  brought  into  being 
to  foster  the  education  that  develops  the  whole  man, 
has  always  been  marked  by  special  religious  influ- 
ences. She  has  done  work  reflecting~credit  and  even 
glory  on  her  mother,  this  Second  Presbyterian 
Church.  A  man  like  B.  Fay  Mills,  one  of  her  first 
College  graduates,  has  already  proved  a  blessing  to 
Chicago,  to  the  Northwest,  to  this  whole  land  from 
coast  to  coast.  J.  Wilbur  Chapman  is  known  as  the 
pastor  of  Be'thany  Church,  Philadelphia,  with  its 
Sunday-school  of  world-wide  reputation.  Men  and 
women  taught,  and  perhaps  converted,  at  Lake  Forest, 
are  in  New  York  City  and  in  San  Francisco,  in  New 
England  and  in  New  Mexico,  in  Japan,  China, 
Persia — as  well  as  in  the  Black  Hills,  and  in  towns 
and  cities,  living  as  servants  of  the  Humanity  whom 
God  loves. 

"  God  buries  his  workmen,  but  their  work  goes  on, " 
is  inscribed  upon  the  memorial  of  the   Wesleys  in 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY. 


Westminster  Abbey.  As  yet  God  has  not  buried  all 
the  workmen  of  this  Church  who  started  the  inter- 
ests at  Lake  Forest,  but  when  He  does  bury  them, 
when  the  people  of  this  Second  Presbyterian  Church 
who  made  Lake  Forest  a  possibility  have  all  died, 
their  work  will  go  on  and  the  beneficent  influences 
started  here  will  continue  to  bring  forth  fruit  to  the 
welfare  of  man  and  the  glory  of  God  in  all  the 
world. 

Dr.  McPherson  :  When  I  was  a  young  man  I  had 
a  friend  in  school,  and  I  was  glad  to  greet  him  again 
a  few  years  ago  as  a  pastor  in  Chicago.  I  wish  to 
introduce  to  you  Rev.  William  W.  Totheroh,  D.D., 
pastor  of  the  Hyde  Park  Presbyterian  Church,  which 
has  stood  in  many  respects  in  close  relation  to  us. 

ADDRESS  BY  DR.  TOTHEROH. 

I  consider-  myself  fortunate  in  my  presence  here 
on  this  occasion.  I  have  come  as  the  bearer  of  cor- 
dial greetings  from  the  Hyde  Park  Church,  the  child, 
to  the  Second  Church,  the  mother.  The  Church 
which  I  have  the  honor  to  represent  this  evening, 
from  the  time  when  it  was  only  an  idea  lying  in  the 
mind  down  to  the  present  when  the  idea  has  so  grandly 
crystalized,  has  had  steadfast  and  helpful  friends  in 
the  pastors  of  this  Second  Church.  When  it  was 
thought  the  time  had  come  when  a  Presbyterian 
Church  should  be  organized  in  Hyde  Park,  the  people 
turned  at  once  to  Dr.  Patterson  for  counsel,  and  by 
his  advice  and  with  his  assistance  in  the  Presbytery 
the  Church  was  organized.  The  materials  of  our 


294  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

Church  in  the  beginning  were  largely  drawn  from  the 
Second  Church,  and  since  then  valuable  accessions  from 
this  Second  Church  have  been  received  by  us.  The 
first  pastor  of  the  Hyde  Park  Church  was  Rev.  Bradford 
Y.  Averell,  who  was  converted  while  a  member  of  the 
Sabbath-school  of  the  Second  Church,  and  who  was 
connected  with  this  Church  when  he  was  ordained  to 
the  Gospel  ministry.  His  pastorate  covered  not  quite 
two  years,  having  been  cut  short  by  his  death,  but 
such  were  his  character  and  influence  that  they  must 
have  contributed  much  towards  the  subsequent  stead- 
fastness and  growth  of  the  Church. 

In  gathering  up  the  history  of  this  honored  Church 
no  one  can  for  an  instant  question  that  there  is  reason 
for  hearty  congratulation.  I  recall  the  experience  of 
a  young  theologian  who  a  few  years  ago  went 
from  the  theological  seminary  to  assume  his  first 
church.  Within  a  short  time  after  his  installation  a 
man  in  the  congregation,  who  had  lived  one  hundred 
years ;  who  had  been  all  this  time  a  simple  minded, 
unobtrusive  man,  who  had  accomplished  little  except 
as  he  did  the  cobbling  for  the  community,  passed  away. 
After  his  death  the  young  man  on  all  sides  heard  this 
remark,  "  You  are  going  to  have  a  wonderful  opportu- 
nity, the  opportunity  of  a  life  time.  It  is  a  wonderful 
opportunity  for  a  man  to  officiate  at  the  funeral 
of  one  who  has  lived  so  long."  He  heard  so  much 
about  this  that  he  begun  to  inquire  and  investigate, 
to  ascertain  wherein  this  opportunity  was  to  be  found. 
The  man  had  accomplished  nothing  comparatively  in 
his  long  lifetime ;  he  had  simply  been  lazy  in  dying. 


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After  casting  about,  realizing  that  he  must  meet  the 
existing  expectation  in  some  way,  the  young  pastor 
decided  that  he  would  take  for  his  theme  at  the  funeral, 
"  The  Progress  of  the  Century."  And  after  he  had  de- 
veloped this  line  of  thought  on  that  occasion,  he  was 
amazed  to  hear  on  all  sides  of  the  wonderful  funeral 
sermon,  and  then  wondered  what  the  effect  had  been 
upon  the  members  of  the  household  of  the  old  man. 
By  and  by  the  word  came  to  him  that  the  children 
were  delighted  and  were  saying,  "  Why,  father  was  a 
great  man.  Why,  we  never  knew  that  father  had 
had  so  much  to  do  with  these  wonderful  things  that 
have  been  developed  during  this  century. ' '  Now,  there 
are  individuals  and  there  are  churches  that  are  re- 
lated to  great  events  after  this  manner,  being  merely 
contemporaneous  therewith.  But  at  this  time  we 
are  trying  to  do  honor  to  a  church  that  has  been  an 
important  and  a  conspicuous  factor  in  all  her  ecclesias- 
tical relations,  that  has  occupied  no  uncertain  position, 
but  has  been  a  factor  of  power  in  connection  with  all 
great  institutions  pertaining  to  our  national  life  that 
have  arisen  during  the  past  fifty  years  ;  that  has  had 
to  do  with  originating  and  moulding  many  of  our 
most  important  and  useful  humanitarian  societies; 
that  has  never  been  moved  from  the  granite  founda- 
tions of  a  pure  faith,  nor  failed  in  her  loyalty  to  Jesus 
Christ.  It  is  to  the  credit  of  the  Second  Church  that  it 
has  at  no  time  courted  notoriety,  but  that  it  has,  with- 
out noise  or  mere  display,  quietly  and  persistently 
done  a  work  that  has  been  solid  and  redemptive. 
I  have  been  very  much  interested  in  what  has  been 


296  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

told  us  here  this  night  in  the  paper  read  by  Dr.  Pat- 
terson. In  a  certain  sense  it  does  not  astonish  me. 
Dr.  Patterson  is  the  youngest  man  in  our  Presbytery 
to-day.  But  as  I  listened  to  that  paper  I  began  to 
understand  something  connected  with  this  Second 
Church.  I  have  always  been  impressed  with  the 
freshness,  enthusiasm  and  enterprise  of  everything 
in  connection  with  this  church.  Some  time  ago  I 
read  a  sign  which  a  man  had  placed  in  front  of  his 
store  to  this  effect,  "John  Smith,  established  1790." 
Just  across  the  street  a  new  sign  appeared,  "  Robert 
Yoe,  established  yesterday.  No  old  goods  on  hand." 
Somehow  this  church  has  succeeded,  while  living 
during  all  these  years,  in  keeping  its  shelves  free 
from  remnants  and  old  goods.  You  know  many 
stores  go  down  under  remnants  and  old  goods,  and  so 
some  churches  go  down  under  remnants  and  old 
goods,  but  this  church  has  managed  to  keep  clean 
shelves  and  fresh  goods,  and  we  see  now  that  it  has 
been  only  the  life  that  exhibited  itself  in  the  very 
beginning  that  has  continued  right  along.  The 
church  has  been  particularly  favored  in  those  who 
have  served  as  her  pastors,  men  of  such  marked 
attainments  and  intellectual  force,  men  so  faithful,  so 
useful,  so  consecrated.  I  would  add  the  hope  that  in 
the  years  to  come  the  past  that  is  made  shall  be 
equally  beautiful  and  suggestive  for  those  who  shall 
review  it  on  future  anniversary  occasions,  as  that 
which  it  has  been  our  privilege  to  look  back  upon. 
(Applause.) 


FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY. 


Dr.  McPherson  :  Four  or  five  years  ago  two  of  us 
in  this  church  started  a  Sunday-school,  four  or  five 
blocks  west  of  Halsted  street,  and  about  Twenty- 
ninth  street.  First,  two  boys  came  in  —  it  was  in 
January  —  both  with  skates  on.  The  third  boy  also 
wore  a  pair  of  skates.  We  organized  the  school,  and 
the  first  exercise  was  to  have  them  take  off  their 
skates.  Now,  that  school  has  skated  on  well  ever 
since,  —  wonderfully  well.  How  many  of  you  have 
heard  about  it?  Among  the  most  faithful  who  have 
been  there  is  my  friend,  Rev.  Earl  B.  Hubbell,  the 
present  pastor  of  the  Immanuel  Church,  who  will 
speak  to  you  about  the  youngest  child  of  the  Second 
Church. 

MR.  HUBBELL'S  ADDRESS. 

As  the  representative  of  a  church  whose  existence 
is  due  to  the  fostering  love  and  care  of  this  church, 
I  would  that  I  might,  in  a  single  phrase,  express  its 
gratitude  and  most  cordial  congratulations. 

Immanuel  Church,  as  one  of  the  seeds  which 
have  fallen  in  such  profusion  from  this  goodly  flower, 
is  springing  up  in  a  desert  place  that  it  may  be  con- 
verted into  a  garden  of  the  Lord.  Five  years  ago, 
merely  a  Sabbath-school  in  a  difficult  field,  to-day  a 
church  of  two  hundred  members,  we  lay  at  the  foot 
of  this  golden  mile-stone  of  your  progress,  our  tribute 
of  affection. 

Dr.  Gibson  has  written  of  the  important  part 
which  the  Second  Church  has  had  in  the  formation 


298  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

of  this  city,  how  its  banner  unfurled  fifty  years  ago 
has  been  in  the  van  of  all  progress. 

It  is  told  of  a  German  general,  that  his  invari- 
able custom  was  to  march  five  miles  in  the  rear 
of  his  army,  giving  therefor,  what  appeared  to  his 
mind,  two  most  substantial  reasons,  the  first  being 
that  such  position  gave  much  the  greater  security 
in  case  of  conflict,  and  the  second,  that  in  the 
event  of  defeat  he  would  be  saved  ten  miles  of  jour- 
neying. Fortunately,  this  church  has  had  no  such 
German  general,  and  calculations  of  retreat  and  of 
retrenchment  have  not  entered  in.  This  church  has 
stood  in  the  very  fore-front  of  the  battle,  bearing 
the  burden  and  heat  of  the  day.  Therefore,  in  its 
fifty  years  of  history,  in  which  it  has  grown  with 
the  city  which  has  become  the  marvel  of  the 
world,  in  its  din  and  turmoil,  sweetly  sounding 
forth  the  message  of  peace  and  rest,  calling  from 
the  heat  of  strife  to  the  fountain  of  refreshment, 
reaching  out  the  hand  of  help  to  the  needy  and 
fallen,  bringing  near  the  unseen  realities  and  mould- 
ing character,  it  is  seen  how  vast  its  mission,  how 
far-reaching  its  influence,  and  how  nobly  it  has 
responded  to  the  call  of  God  and  humanity.  Such  a 
church  as  this  is  one  out  of  the  ever-reminding 
evidences  of  the  onward  progress  of  the  kingdom  of 
Christ. 

Just  as  every  advancement  made  in  science, 
in  discovery  and  art  makes  conditions  and  prepares 
the  way  for  yet  greater  advancement,  so  the  work 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY. 


wrought  by  this  church  in  the  past  is  at  once  the 
promise  and  prophecy  of  its  future.  Here  the  young 
will  continue  to  gather  and  receive  those  truths 
which  will  give  beauty  and  strength  to  charac- 
ter, those  in  the  midst  of  life's  battle  to  gain 
inspiration,  and  the  aged  to  renew  their  strength 
until  the  shadows  gather.  And  may  we  not  be- 
lieve that  the  future  holds  for  the  church  far  greater 
opportunities  than  the  past  could  afford  ? 

Pessimists  may  speak  of  the  "  good  old  times  " 
when  "  manners  were  simple,  and  faith  was  pure, 
and  men  were  heroic,"  but  we  believe  that  the 
golden  age  is  before,  not  behind,  us.  The  church 
universal,  which  in  the  past  eighty  years  has  ac- 
complished more  than  had  been  wrought  in  the 
previous  1,800  years,  finds  barriers  removed  and  the 
hearts  of  men  prepared  as  never  before  for  the  com- 
ing of  the  King. 

Back  of  the  high  altar  in  St.  Sophia  was  once 
a  matchless  portrait  of  the  glorified  Christ  taking 
possession  of  his  kingdom.  When  the  cathedral 
passed  under  Moslem  rule  the  portrait  was  plas- 
tered over  that  the  Saviour  of  the  World  might 
not  be  seen.  Tradition  says  that  when  the  por- 
trait of  Christ  shall  again  appear  on  the  walls 
of  St.  Sophia  all  hearts  shall  be  ready  to  receive 
him.  And  now  after  the  lapse  of  centuries  the 
scales  are  falling  and  the  beautiful  lines  of  the  radi- 
ant form  are  appearing. 

We  rejoice  that  the  form  of  Christ  is  revealed 


3OO  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

more  and  more  clearly  in  the  temple  of  humanity, 
that 

"  Through  the  harsh  voices  of  our  day 
A  low  sweet  prelude  finds  its  way; 
Through  clouds  of  doubt  and  creeds  of  fear 
A  light  is  breaking  calm  and  clear. 
That  song  of  love,  now  low  and  far, 
Ere  long  shall  swell  from  star  to  star 
That  light  the  breaking  day  which  tips 
The  golden  spired  Apocalypse." 

For  the  part  which  this  Church  will  have  in  this 
work,  for  the  influence  it  will  exert,  for  the  characters 
which  it  will  mould  and  the  friendships  it  will  seal, 
we  wish  you  God  speed. 

After  a  delightful  duet  by  Mrs.  Farwell  and  Mrs. 
Thacker,  entitled  "  Good  Night,"  the  benediction 
was  pronounced  by  Dr.  Patterson. 


THE  SOCIAL  RECEPTION. 

TUESDAY  EVENING,   JUNE  21. 

All  parts  of  the  Church  were  open  to  guests.  The 
Lecture  Room,  cleared  of  its  usual  furniture  and 
beautifully  decorted  for  the  occasion,  was  the  central 
gathering  place.  The  supper  was  served  in  the  Sun- 
day-school Rooms  above.  The  first  part  of  the 
evening  was  devoted  to  greeting  neighbors  and  old 
friends  and  former  members  of  the  Church.  Just 
before  supper  a  few  informal  remarks  were  made. 

Dr.  McPherson  :  I  want  to  give  you  a  little  state- 
ment of  the  greetings  we  have  had.  You  need  not 


FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY.  30! 

adjust  yourselves  for  a  long  standing,  for  I  will  not 
consume  many  minutes. 

Let  me  first  read  an  extract  from  a  note  from  Mr. 
Z.  Stiles  Ely,  of  New  York,  a  brother  of  Mrs.  O.  F. 
Avery,  whose  sister  was  the  first  person,  I  think,  that 
went  out  from  this  Church  as  a  missionary.  She 
went  to  India.  He  says :  "  It  is  forty-four  years 
since  I  connected  myself  with  the  Church,  then  in  a 
long,  low,  frame  building,  yet  I  have  not  ceased  to  be 
interested  in  its  prosperity.  I  have  rejoiced  in  its 
growth.  The  Church  was  fortunate  in  its  founders 
and  has  been  fortunate  in  its  pastors.  That  there 
should  have  been  but  three  of  these  during  these  fifty 
years  in  a  city  of  such  rapid  changes  as  Chicago  is 
remarkable,  and  speaks  well  for  both  pastors  and 
people."  I  read  that  in  the  interest  of  this  city 
exclusively.  I  want  to  say  I  don't  think  that,  with 
the  exception  of  Dr.  Patterson,  this  Church  has  had 
exceptionally  long  pastorates.  But  the  average 
tenure  has  been  long  for  most  of  its  officers.  The 
church  has  not  been  fickle  or  changeable.  For  exam- 
ple, last  night  I  was  talking  with  members  of  the 
choir,  and  one  of  them,  Mr.  Hubbard,  told  me  that 
he  joined  the  choir  twenty-nine  years  ago.  He  is 
only  three  years  older  than  I  am,  so  you  can  figure 
that  out. 

Another  member  of  the  choir,  Mr.  Howard,  coming 
after  the  fire,  has  entered  upon  his  twenty-first  year 
of  service.  Mrs.  Farwell,  whom  we  esteem  so  highly 
personally,  and  whose  voice  always  delights  us,  came 
at  the  same  time  with  Mr.  Howard.  Mr.  Blakeslee 


3O2  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

and  Mr.  Bradley  have  each  been  here  as  sextons 
about  thirty  years  ;  Mr.  Bradley,  I  think,  thirty 
years,  and  Mr.  Blakeslee  more  than  thirty.  If  Mr. 
Bradley  should  go,  I  don't  see  how  I  could  get  on. 
This  Church  is  noted  for  keeping  their  officers  with 
them  for  a  long  time. 

Here  is  a  letter  from  a  member  of  the  first  quar- 
tette choir  the  Church  ever  had,  Mr.  Henry  Johnson, 
of  New  York.  He  says:  "The  'Old  Second 
Church,'  under  the  pastorate  of  our  dearly  loved  Dr. 
Patterson,  became  my  church  home  in  the  *  early 
fifties.'  You,  dear  Mr.  Carter,  well  recollect  the  dis- 
placement of  the  old  chorus  choir  by  the  first  quar- 
tette, consisting  of  Mrs.  Thomas,  soprano,  Mrs. 
Mattison,  alto,  Charley  Severns,  tenor,  Henry  John- 
son, basso.  This  engagement  first  brought  me  to  the 
Second  Church  and  under  the  influences  that  led  to 
my  conversion  and  my  uniting  with  the  Church  in 


"  I  thank  God  for  the  old  Second  Church,  corner  of 
Wabash  avenue  and  Washington  street,  that  I  was 
brought  under  the  teachings  of  Dr.  Patterson  and  the 
then  eldership  of  the  Church,  and  that  my  Christian 
life  and  work  has  been  all  these  years  carried  on 
under  the  impulses  received  within  those  walls.  God 
bless  the  Second  Church." 

The  choir  of  this  church,  like  the  other  persons, 
are  noted  for  their  peaceableness  and  their  skill.  I 
came  in  ten  years  ago  and  wondered  how  a  choir 
could  get  on  so  smoothly  as  our  choir  did.  I  remem- 
ber of  asking  a  man,  who  perhaps  didn't  know  the 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  303 

church,  how  it  was  that  the  choir  was  so  tractable : 
"Because,"  he  said,  "  one  member  of  the  Music  Com- 
mittee is  the  Secretary  of  War  of  the  United  States." 
But  I  found  out  that  he  was  only  joking.  We  have 
no  wars.  I  have  had  my  Scotch  touched  two  or  three 
times  by  suggestions  that  the  quartette  choir  cared 
only  for  aesthetic  music;  for  instance,  by  the  story 
going  around  for  the  last  fifteen  years  about  the 
Scotch  woman,  who  said  that  when  our  high-priced 
choir  began  to  sing,  she  just  shut  her  ears  and 
hummed  "the  23d  Psawm."  On  the  contrary,  I  be- 
lieve that  our  music  is  one  of  the  most  helpful  and 
devotional  parts  of  our  service.  I  want  to  take  this 
opportunity  of  making  my  acknowledgments  to  that 
choir  for  their  friendly  cooperation  with  me,  and  for 
their  constant  aid  to  the  services. 

We  have  a  series  of  letters  here  from  ministers. 
Here  is  one  from  Rev.  W.  W.  Adams,  of  Fall  River, 
Mass.  He  says  :  "  I  joined  the  Second  Church  on 
profession  of  faith  in  my  fourteenth  year,  and  I  still 
remain  a  member  of  it.  I  shall  never  forget  some  of 
the  sermons  of  Dr.  Patterson — I  still  have  '  notes '  of 
some  of  them — nor  his  pastoral  care;  and  I  still 
count  him  as  in  some  sort  my  pastor."  And  here  is 
one  for  the  young  people.  "  The  first  Young  People's 
Prayer  Meetings  I  ever  attended  were  in  the  parlor 
of  Mr.  T.  B.  Carter,  on  Clark  street.  With  Mr.  Car- 
ter's help,  and  under  his  stimulus,  I  made  my  first 
beginning  of  active  participation  in  such  meetings. 
They  were  held  early  on  Sunday  evenings,  and  were, 
I  think,  the  first  Young  People's  Prayer  Meetings 


304  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

ever  held  in  the  history  of  the  church."  Now,  what 
do  Christian  Endeavorers  say  to  that  anticipation  of 
their  present  plans  ?  A  Christian  Endeavor  Society 
before  Father  Endeavor  Clarke.  How  long  ago  is 
that  ?  Forty-one  years. 

Here  is  another  letter  from  Dr.  Hathaway,  of 
Jersey  City.  He  says:  "It  may  perhaps  be  a 
pleasure  to  these  friends  to  know  that  he  who  kept 
the  little  fruit  store  on  State  street  has  been  for  the 
past  fourteen  years  the  pastor  of  a  Presbyterian 
church  in  Jersey  City,  and  has  twice  represented  his 
Presbytery  in  the  General  Assembly,  and  last  week 
received  an  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  from  Marysville 
College,  Tenn.  Again,  your  present  pastor,  Dr.  Mc- 
Pherson,  was  for  one  year  a  class-mate  of  mine  in 
Princeton  Seminary." 

I  was  told  last  night  the  reason  I  was  getting  gray 
was  because  it  was  so  hard  to  be  pious  in  Chicago, 
and  I  think  a  man  who,  after  staying  for  fourteen 
years  in  one  church  as  pastor,  feels  that  a  chief  re- 
ward is  given  in  the  D.D.  at  last,  must  find  it  hard 
work  indeed. 

Judge  Kirk  Hawes  then  made  a  genial  and  witty 
address,  but  he  is  too  modest  to  have  it  reported. 

Dr.  McPherson  :  We  have  been  hearing  for  three 
days  about  the  Second  Church.  I  am  not  sure  but  it 
is  a  good  thing  to  turn  for  our  closing  address,  for  a 
few  words  of  greeting,  to  a  representative  of  another 
denomination.  Judge  Hawes,  who  makes  precedents, 
says  it  is  a  universal  rule  for  Presbyterians  to  fol- 
low suit,  whatever  that  means,  and  I  ain  sure  you 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  305 

won't  consider  I  am  doing  otherwise  if  I  call  for  the 
next  speech  upon  the  Pastor  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church.  The  question  of  age  of  churches  is  purely 
a  relative  question,  and  Dr.  Henson  is  certainly  the 
pastor  of  an  aged  but  not  infirm  church.  Being  a 
sober  and  serious-minded  man,  he  must  not  be  intro- 
duced with  light  and  frivolous  remarks.  We  are 
seriously  glad  to  see  him.  Dr.  Henson. 

DR.  P.  S.  HENSON. 

I  am  proud  and  happy  to  be  here.  My  willing 
soul  would  stay  in  such  a  frame  as  this,  and  sit  and 
sing  myself  away,  as  I  suppose  is  the  habit  of  Brother 
Hawes.  But  I  feel  just  a  little  embarrassed  in  this 
presence  because  I  come  from  a  church  that  is  very 
differently  situated,  a  church  that  is  in  a  very  much 
humbler  locality';  a  church  composed  of  working 
people  (applause)  ;  where  none  of  us  are  likely  to 
suffer  from  fatty  degeneration.  (Laughter.)  We  are 
all  so  poor  that  we  cannot  afford  just  to  sit  down  and 
rest  in  luxurious  ease;  we  have  to  watch  and  fight 
and  pray,  or  we  shall  perish.  And  this  perhaps  is 
good  for  us.  To  be  frank,  I  have  some  fears  about 
the  top-loftiness  of  these  Michigan  Avenue  churches. 
I  have  observed  an  aspiring  disposition,  especially  on 
the  part  of  this  Second  Church,  which  the  Lord  also 
seems  to  have  taken  notice  of.*  (Laughter.)  I  have 
watched  with  great  interest  the  development  of  this 
top-loftiness,  and  have  occasionally  seen  some  of  the 


*  Considerable  damage  had  been  done  to  the  spire  of  the  church  by  a  recent  very 
severe  storm. 


306  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

stones  that  were  thus  ambitiously  piled  take  a  tumble 
to  the  pavement  below,  while  your  glittering  Saint 
Andrew's  Cross  was  bent  over  by  the  storm  as  if 
Dr.  Briggs  had  been  leaning  against  it.  (Laughter.) 
I  say  I  feel  just  a  little  embarrassed  because  I  am 
not  used  to  this  kind  of  aristocratic  company.  I  take 
it  for  granted  that  this  is  the  very  "creme  de  la 
creme"  of  Chicago,  the  elect  of  the  elect  of  this  rich 
and  fashionable  quarter.  (Laughter.)  It  is  delight- 
ful, however,  to  have  the  privilege  just  for  a  night  of 
breathing  this  perfumed  air  (laughter),  and  mingling 
with  this  goodly  gathering  of  fair  women  and  brave 
men.  I  feel,  however,  about  like  that  colored  brother 
who  came  to  my  church  some  years  ago  and  desired 
a  collection — these  colored  brethren  always  desire  a 
collection,  and  I  being  a  fellow-countryman,  they 
make  a  bee-line  for  my  house  whenever  one  comes 
from  away  down  south.  This  one  got  a  collec- 
tion, and  as  it  was  turned  out  on  the  table  his  eyes 
gleamed  with  delight  and  he  showed  his  ivories.  I 
thought  it  would  be  a  satisfaction  to  him  to  have  an 
opportunity  of  expressing  himself,  so  I  asked  him  to 
offer  the  closing  prayer,  which  he  did,  beginning  by 
saying,  "Oh,  Lord,  have  mercy  on  Thy  poor  un- 
educated colored  servant,  and  teach  him  how  to 
behave  himself,  for  he  never  was  in  such  good  com- 
pany before."  (Laughter.). 

I  am  happy  to  be  in  such  good  company.  I  have 
often  been  tempted  to  wish  I  were  a  Presbyterian. 
(Cries  of  hear,  hear.)  And  if  I  were  not  a  Baptist  I 
would  be.  I  believe  in  a  good  many  things  that  you 


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believe  in.  I  believe  in  your  stability,  in  your  solid- 
ity, in  your  steady  adherence  to  the  faith  once  de- 
livered to  the  Saints.  I  don't  take  any  stock  in  that 
Methodist  story  that  you  may  have  heard.  A  Meth- 
odist and  Presbyterian  were  having  a  passage-at-arms 
about  their  respective  dogmas.  The  Presbyterian 
said  to  his  Methodist  brother,  "  You  Methodists  are 
just  like  one  of  these  tree  toads  sitting  up  on  the 
topmost  bough  and  everlastingly  croaking,  '  Free 
grace,  free  grace,'  and  about  the  time  you  get  in  a 
good  day  down  you  drop  *  kerflop '  to  the  bottom." 
The  Methodist  retorted  promptly,  "  You  Presby- 
terians are  just  like  one  of  these  big  bull-frogs  who 
squat  in  a  swamp,  with  his  nose  just  above  the  green 
slime,  and  there  he  sits  and  croaks,  '  Can't  fall,  can't 
fall.'  "  (Laughter.)  Of  course  he  can't,  where  on 
earth  would  he  fall  to  ?  You  don't  believe  in  falling 
from  grace,  and  I  don't,  if  you  ever  had  the  grace.  I 
rejoice  more  and  more  in  these  days  of  limpness  and 
loose-join tedness  that  the  Lord  has  a  people  in  the 
world  like  the  Presbyterian  denomination.  I  thank 
God  for  your  steadfast  contention  for  the  truth.  I 
look  around  me  to-night  upon  men  who  were  brought 
up  on  the  Catechism,  who  were  brought  up  under 
Dr.  Patterson,  and  Dr.  Gibson  and  Dr.  McPherson, 
and  who  consequently  believe  something.  The  longer 
I  live  the  more  I  believe  in  people  who  believe  in 
what  they  believe  in.  And  hence,  when  somebody 
suggested  the  other  day  that  it  was  a  pity  you  had 
not  mounted  on  the  top  of  your  steeple  a  weather- 
cock instead  of  that  ponderous  ornament,  which  was 


308  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

lately  blown  over,  I  replied  that  it  would  be  unpres- 
byterian  to  have  a  finial  that  would  suggest  the 
possibility  of  your  being  carried  about  by  every 
wind  of  doctrine ;  that  you  were  not  built  that  way. 
(Laughter.) 

If  I  were  going  to  illustrate  Christianity  by  a 
figure,  I  would  say  it  was  a  tree,  and  faith  is  the  root, 
and  doctrine  is  the  trunk,  and  love  is  the  sap,  and 
the  charities  are  the  fruit  that  grow  on  the  branches. 
Now,  there  are  a  great  many  people  in  our  time  who 
will  tell  you  that  love  is  everything,  no  matter  what 
you  believe  or  how  you  live,  just  so  your  heart  is 
right.  They  don't  believe  in  old-fashioned  doctrine, 
but  in  love,  that  is  the  great  thing.  No  doubt  it  is  a 
great  thing,  and  no  doubt  in  the  case  of  a  tree  the 
sap  is  a  great  thing,  but  it  isn't  everything.  There 
are  people  that  believe  in  nothing  but  sap ;  they  have 
all  gone  to  sap.  Theirs  is  a  gospel  of  gush  and  mush 
and  slush,  and  yet  believe  me,  if  you  cut  down  the 
sturdy  stock  of  doctrine  all  the  sap  will  go  into  the 
ground,  and  presently  you  will  have  no  tree  or  fruit 
or  anything.  I  rejoice  that  the  Presbyterian  Church 
is  rooted  and  grounded  immovably.  That  it  steadily 
lifts  the  stock  of  Scripture  doctrine,  that  every  fibre 
is  permeated  by  the  generous  flow  of  love,  and  that 
the  tree  is  mounting  higher  and  higher  with  each 
revolving  year,  and  it  flourishes  like  the  Tree  of  Life 
which  bears  twelve  manner  of  fruits  and  yields  them 
every  month.  May  God  bless  the  Second  Presbyte- 
rian Church  and  all  the  Presbyterian  Churches  all 
the  land  over  and  all  the  world  over,  and  give  you 


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ever  so  many  more  of  them ;  and  I  wisk  you,  my 
dear  brother  (turning  to  Dr.  McPherson) ,  with  whom 
I  have  lived  on  terms  of  such  loving  intimacy  for 
these  ten  years,  many  happy  returns  of  the  season. 
I  hope  you  will  long  be  spared  to  bless  this  faithful 
flock.  It  makes  me  tired,  this  everlasting  change  in 
Chicago,  this  coming  and  going  of  pastors  and  peo- 
ples. About  the  time  you  get  used  to  a  man,  and 
come  to  know  him  and  love  him,  he  folds  his  tent 
like  the  Arab  and  silently  steals  away.  I  don't  be- 
lieve in  it.  I  believe  in  standing  by  the  stuff,  if  you 
have  lots  of  stuff  to  stand  by.  (Laughter.)  You 
can  afford  to  remain.  I  hope  you  will.  They  tell 
me  you  are  getting  gray.  Well,  don't  mind  that. 
We  who  are  beginning  to  whiten  a  little  sometimes 
have  our  grievances  to  bear.  I  was  out  horseback 
riding  the  other  day,  an  exercise  I  am  very  fond  of, 
and  I  noticed  that  the  saddle-pad  was  working  back 
under  the  saddle,  and  I  rode  into  a  livery  stable  and 
the  proprietor  very  graciously  adjusted  matters  for 
me,  and  as  I  was  about  to  mount,  he  called  to  one  of 
his  men  and  said:  "Tom,  bring  out  a  chair  for  the 
old  gentleman  to  get  on."  (Laughter.)  Said  I,  "  You 
miserable  sinner,  what  do  you  take  me  for?  When 
I  get  so  far  gone  as  that  I  will  get  somebody  to  run 
me  around  in  an  easy  chair  and  quit  horseback  rid- 
ing altogether,"  and  with  that  I  vaulted  lightly  into 
the  saddle,  for  I  was  born  on  horseback,  and  he  said : 
u  Tom,  I  guess  you  need  not  bring  that  chair,  he 
ain't  quite  so  old  as  I  thought  he  was."  I  don't  pro- 
pose to  be  any  older  than  I  am  to-night,  and  I  gave 


3IO  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

my  people  notice  when  I  came  to  them  that  I  didn't 
propose  to  vacate  in  favor  of  any  of  the  boys.  I  said 
to  them,  "  You  have  had  some  trouble  in  getting  me, 
but  when  you  come  to  get  rid  of  me  then  will  be  the 
real  circus."  (Laughter.)  If  any  of  you  are  dissat- 
isfied you  can  take  your  letters  and  go ;  it  will  be 
more  convenient  for  you  to  go  than  it  is  for  me.  A 
great  many  have  left  since.  (Laughter.)  But  I  still 
hold  the  fort,  and  I  hope  you  will  hold  yours.  I  be- 
lieve in  old  men  that  illustrate  the  final  perseverance 
of  the  Saints.  I  believe  in  old  men  with  back-bone. 
I  was  standing  some  time  since  in  a  car  where  there 
was  an  old  man  standing  up,  and  he  continued  to 
stand,  and  I  wondered  why  he  didn't  sit.  We  flashed 
along  the  iron  rail  and  still  he  stood,  and  still  I 
wondered,  and  I  asked  somebody,  "  What  is  the  mat- 
ter with  that  old  man  ?  "  And  he  replied  that  there 
were  two  gentlemen  taking  him  to  some  sort  of  an 
asylum,  and  unfortunately  one  of  them  told  him  to 
sit  down,  and  that  is  the  reason  he  is  standing  up. 
I  said,  "  Grand  old  man,  everything  gone  except  his 
back-bone."  That  is  the  kind  of  back-bone  that  God 
gave  to  your  pastor,  as  you  will  be  apt  to  discover  if 
you  undertake  to  bend  it.  (Laughter.)  I  rejoice 
that  in  spite  of  repeated  "  overtures  " — that  is  what 
they  call  it  in  the  Presbyterian  Church,  don't  they? 
— he  has  resolved  to  remain  in  Chicago.  Where  else 
on  earth  should  a  man  go?  I  used  to  be  perplexed 
for  an  answer  when  friends  from  abroad  would  ask 
me  which  way  was  up  town  and  which  way  was 
down  town  in  this  absolutely  flat  city.  But  I  am 


FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY.  3!  I 

perplexed  no  more,  I  have  settled  it.  I  can  tell  you 
now.  It  is  up  every  way  until  you  get  to  the  First 
Baptist  Church,  and  it  is  down  from  there  every 
other  way.  So  much  for  the  Baptist  part  of  it ;  but 
as  to  Chicago  itself,  I  am  just  enough  of  a  Chicagoan 
to  say  that  from  all  over  the  world  it  is  up  hill  till 
you  come  to  this  pinnacle.  This  is  the  foremost  city 
of  the  world,  or  destined  speedily  to  be,  and  the  man 
who  cannot  be  satisfied  with  such  a  field  of  work  and 
such  a  theatre  of  ambition  as  that  which  your  pastor 
occupies,  would  deserve  to  be  shut  up  in  Joliet  or 
banished  to  New  York.  (Laughter  and  applause.) 

Dr.  McPherson  :  Ladies  and  gentlemen,  I  had  no 
previous  conference  with  Dr.  Henson.  He  is  not 
paid  for  demanding  that  my  pastorate  shall  be  long. 
But  I  must  say  that  I  agree  with  him  in  believing 
that  long  pastorates  in  general  are  in  many  ways 
desirable,  at  least  to  the  ministers.  After  that  speech, 
any  further  prose  would  be  anti-climax.  We  turn  to 
poetry. 

Rev.  Dr.  F.  W.  Gunsaulus  has  sent  us  a  little 
poem  which  will  be  read,  and  then  we  shall  go  to 
supper. 

The  poem  was  read  by  Mr.  Allen  as  follows  : 

GREETINGS   FROM   PLYMOUTH   CHURCH. 

In  vain,  my  sister,  after  fifty  noble  years 
Look  we  for  silver  hairs  and  marks  of  coming  age. 

Rose  bloom  is  on  thy  cheek :     And  on  thy  brow  appears 
Immortal  promise  of  thy  youth's  fair  heritage. 

Golden  thy  wedding  with  God's  messenger  called  time 
Thy  youth  glows  splendid,  like  a  dawning  on  the  sea ! 


312  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


For  deep  within  both  hearts,  as  music  in  rich  rhyme 
Lived,  as  there  lives,  the  breath  of  young  eternity. 

These  fifty  years  are  crowns  enflowered  with  living  bloom  : 
Dew  filled  from  heaven,  brilliant,  fragrant,  sweet  as  love. 

Yet  all  their  worthy  glory,  rooted  in  Christ's  tomb, 
Opens  triumphant,  like  that  Easter  from  above. 

These  fifty  years  are  fifty  jewel-caskets  bright 

Holding  the  gems  of  faith,  love's  gold  all  purged  from  dross, 
Richer  by  far  than  when  the  first  stray  beams  of  light 

Fell  on  their  shining — thou  hast  kept  them  without  loss. 

Yet  to  how  many  hast  thou  given  of  thy  truth 
Ever  enriching  as  thou  gavest,  yet  enriched  the  more  : 

Past  fifty  years— thine  age  is  richer  far  than  youth. 
Christ  gives  His  treasures  to  us,  when  we  give  our  store. 

Doubts,  like  vague  cloud-land,  hasting,  floated  o'er  the  blue. 

Oft  man  seemed  lonely,  widowed  in  his  spirit  loss. 
Lo,  doubts  are  earth-born,  waifs  of  ocean ;  and  the  true 

Shines  here  a  star-lit  token,  bending  o'er  His  cross. 

Forth  to  thy  future,  waiting,  with  thy  wedded  time, 
Voices  of  rapture,  yonder,  bless  our  God  for  thee, 

Thine  is  the  guerdon;  wear  it!  Thine  the  glorious  chime 
When  God  shall  welcome  both  within  eternity. 


PRAYER  MEETING. 

WEDNESDAY  EVENING,  JUNE  22D. 

REMINISCENCES. 

The  Pastor :  This  evening  we  expect  reminis- 
cences from  any  one  that  will  help  us.  Glad  to  hear 
from  you  who  have  been  formerly  with  us  and  have 
returned  for  the  night.  We  want  it  to  be  a  perfectly 
free  meeting,  and  you  may  choose  such  reminiscences 
as  you  see  fit.  I  shall  call  on  a  few  and  trust  to  the 
good  will  and  fellowship  of  others.  First  of  all  I 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  313 

think  I  shall  ask  a  son  of  Dr.  Ambrose  Wight,  the 
Rev.  J.  S.  Wight,  who  is  now  pastor  of  the  Waynes- 
ville  Church  in  this  State. 

THE  REV.  J.  S.  WIGHT'S  REMARKS. 

I  would  that  instead  of  myself,  my  father  stood 
here  to-night.  I  had  hoped  that  his  life  might  be 
spared  to  see  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  this  church. 
Although  not  one  of  the  original  members,  he  was  one 
of  the  early  hearers  of  Dr.  Patterson,  when  he  was 
a  young  man,  and  I  think  united  with  this  church 
almost  at  the  beginning ;  he  certainly  knew  its  his- 
tory as  very  few  men  do.  I  have  been  away  a  great 
while,  and  feel  very  much  as  the  folks  down  South 
do.  They  date  everything  from  the  war.  Some 
things  happened  before  the  war,  a  great  many  things 
during  the  war,  and  some  things  have  come  into  sight 
since  the  war.  The  fire  sent  me  away  out  of  the 
city,  and  one  of  the  last  things  I  did  was  to  vote  for 
the  removal  of  the  old  church  and  the  union  with 
Olivet.  When  Dr.  Patterson  called  attention  to  the 
faithfulness  of  those  early  members  of  the  church, 
he  was  only  saying  what  was  actually  due  to  them. 
Faithfulness  has  been  a  marked  feature  of  this 
church  ever  since.  And  the  faithfulness  was  not  all 
confined  to  members  of  the  church.  One  of  the 
things  which  made  such  an  impression  upon  me  in 
my  childhood  and  which  has  abided  with  me  to  this 
day  was  the  constancy  with  which  those  men  and 
women,  and  the  young  men  and  women  and  the 
children  came  to  church  morning  and  evening.  As 


3^4  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

I  run  over  the  list  of  the  older  members  I  can  re- 
member how  they  sat  in  the  old  church,  and  how  they 
used  to  enter  the  church.  Most  of  them  were  there 
when  the  voluntary  commenced — nearly  every  one 
of  them,  unless  specially  detained,  was  there  for 
the  invocation.  One  of  them  is  here  to-night.  He 
used  to  sit  over  on  Dr.  Patterson's  right,  in  that 
amen  corner.  He  was  a  physician  of  a  large 
practice,  but  I  noticed  that  he  was  almost  always 
there  when  church  commenced ;  and  if  he  wasn't 
I  used  to  watch  to  see  the  door  into  the  lecture 
room  open  and  see  him  slip  into  his  seat,  and  I 
used  to  admire  the  dexterity  with  which  he  did  itr 
and  often  quoted  his  example  to  some  other  doctors 
without  so  much  practice  who  were  not  as  regular  in 
church  attendance  as  he.  Then  there  was  another 
one,  a  lady,  Mrs.  T.  B.  Carter,  she  was  deaf.  I  don't 
think  she  heard  a  word  of  the  service  from  beginning 
to  end.  She  sat  there  in  her  pew  with  her  children 
and  her  husband.  Her  husband  showed  her  the  place 
where  the  hymns  were  to  be  found,  the  Scripture 
lesson  and  the  text.  But  she  was  always  there,  unless 
prevented  by  ill-health,  every  Sabbath  morning. 
Although  she  could  not  hear  she  could  worship  with 
that  congregation  and  with  the  church,  and  I  have 
no  question  but  that  her  worship  was  as  sincere  and 
as  acceptable  as  that  of  any  other  worshiper,  nor 
have  I  any  question  either  that  she  gained  as  much 
spiritual  uplifting  from  her  form  of  worship  as  any 
of  that  congregation. 

I  remember  another  one  there,  and  a  great  many 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  315 

of  you,  I  think,  will  remember  him  :  Honorable  John 
Wentworth — not  a  member  of  the  church.  No  man 
ever  made  a  stronger  impression  upon  my  memory 
than  he.  Sabbath  morning,  even  though  an  election 
was  coming  on  Monday  morning  and  he  was  a  can- 
didate, at  about  just  such  a  time  before  the  invoca- 
tion, with  his  cane  in  one  hand  and  his  hat  in  the 
other,  he  came  up  to  his  pew  and  took  his  seat.  The 
cane  was  laid  deliberately  on  the  seat  and  the  hat 
beside  it,  and  he  sat  down ;  and  I  remember  to  this 
day  how  he  looked  around  to  see  whether  all  the 
other  old  members  whom  he  counted  upon  were  there 
in  their  places.  And  Sabbath  evening  he  was  there 
again. 

There  were  others  there.  Some  were  the  children 
of  this  church  like  myself.  The  children  used  to 
go  to  church  on  Sunday  morning,  and  they  sat  with' 
their  parents  or  in  front  of  them.  Mr.  Hunt  had  a 
large  family,  and  occupied  two  pews  and  I  used  to 
remark  that  the  smaller  children  sat  in  the  front 
pew ;  and  I  have  learned  in  later  years  that  there 
was  wisdom  and  generalship  in  that.  I  never 
knew  of  their  disturbing  the  congregation.  I  re- 
member this  faithfulness  in  attendance,  and  it  has 
been  a  great  help,  and  it  has  been  one  of  the  things 
which  has  had  a  marked  influence  on  my  own  life. 

There  are  churches  that  are  largely  attended  on 
the  Sabbath,  in  the  morning  especially,  whose  prayer 
meetings  are  poorly  attended.  The  prayer  meetings 
of  the  Second  Church  were  not  as  large  in  propor- 
tion as  those  of  some  other  churches  in  some  later 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


years.  But  the  old  lecture  room  I  remember  was 
very  well  filled,  very  comfortably  filled  —  sometimes 
uncomfortably  full.  There  was  nothing  of  the 
modern  three  minute  talk  in  that  prayer  meeting.  I 
remember  on  one  occasion  that  Dr.  Patterson  told  us 
to  suggest  what  should  be  done  to  have  a  more 
general  participation  in  the  meeting.  Judge  Hawes 
has  told  how  the  matter  impressed  him.  He  said 
that  they  came  there  and  sang  two  or  three  hymns, 
and  the  Doctor  called  on  one  or  two  elders  to  lead 
in  prayer,  which  they  did  very  appropriately,  and 
then  he  read  a  passage  of  Scripture  and  commented 
upon  it,  and  when  he  got  through  it  didn't  seem  to 
him  that  there  was  anything  left  for  anybody  else  to 
say.  There  was  a  good  deal  in  that.  The  Doctor 
did  his  work  thoroughly,  and  there  wasn't  a  great 
deal  to  be  said  about  that  passage-  after  he  got 
through  ;  and  yet  that  prayer  meeting  was,  as  I  have 
watched  other  prayer  meetings,  after  all,  the  type  on 
which  the  successful  pastors  are  carrying  on  their 
prayer  meetings.  I  know  of  no  successful  pastor 
whose  prayer  meeting  does  not  include  an  analysis 
of  the  Scripture  from  week  to  week.  In  fact  the  very 
permanence  of  a  meeting  in  a  church,  especially  a 
large  church  like  this,  implies  it,  and  implies  that  the 
pastor  is  a  teacher  of  the  Bible.  When  I  look 
over  this  church  and  see  these  young  people  who 
are  younger  than  I,  who  are  not  young  people, 
perhaps,  or  are  not  counted  as  such,  but  who  are 
children  of  this  church,  I  feel  as  if  the  Doctor  had, 
after  all,  a  very  successful  prayer  meeting.  The 


FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY.  317 

permanency  of  his  own  pastorship  seems  to  be  re- 
flected in  those  and  others  who  have  been  mentioned. 

Dr.  Adams  has  had  but  three  pastorates  in  his 
life,  and  I  think  the  present  one  is  nearly  thirty 
years,  if  not  over  thirty  years,  in  length,  and  my 
father's  pastorate  would  have  reached  twenty-five 
years  if  he  had  lived  six  months  longer.  He  entered 
the  ministry,  as  many  of  you  know,  in  middle  life. 
Men  who  are  the  children  of  this  church  have  gone 
— a  great  many  of  them.  I  came  back  here  because 
here  I  feel  at  home.  This  is  my  home.  Chicago  is 
my  church  home.  The  union  of  the  Olivet  and  the 
Second  makes  this  the  only  home  which  I  ever  had  ; 
and  the  only  pastor  living,  of  all  those  who  have 
been  my  pastors,  is  the  man  who  baptized  me  as  a 
child — Dr.  Patterson.  Our  hearts  turn  back  to  him 
in  our  great  sorrows. 

I  have  rejoiced  in  the  work  which  this  church  has 
done.  It  seems  to  me  that  I  have  a  part  in  it.  I 
have  been  away  a  great  while,  but  I  feel  that  I  have 
a  part  in  this  work,  and  that  I  am,  myself,  a  part  of 
the  work  which  this  church  has  done.  Here  I  was 
trained  for  Christ  and  for  His  kingdom  and  for  His 
service,  and  I  can  no  more  get  away  from  the  train- 
ing I  got  here,  and  under  my  father,  than  I  could  get 
away  from  myself. 

One  other  reminiscence  and  I  am  through.  I  re- 
member very  distinctly  in  1857  the  revival  which 
came  to  this  church.  My  father  called  attention 
once  to  the  fact  that  no  two  of  the  revivals  of  which 
a  record  is  given  us  in  the  New  Testament  were 


SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


alike,  and  no  two  revivals  which  he  had  known  were 
alike.  But  the  one  of  1857  has  seemed  to  me  near- 
est a  model  revival  of  any  of  which  I  have  had  any 
experience  or  knowledge.  Those  meetings  were  very 
quiet  meetings.  The  pastor  talked  as  he  always  did  ; 
others  talked  a  great  deal  more  than  they  commonly 
did,  but  the  meeting  was  of  such  a  sort  that  it 
seemed  as  if  God  was  there,  as  if  He  had  something 
to  say  to  every  one  present.  I  have  felt  that  ours 
were  typical  revival  services  in  this  :  That  the  con- 
fession of  sin  was  a  starting  point  with  all  those  who 
came  to  Christ.  They  acknowledged  themselves  as 
sinners.  They  had  a  conception  of  the  sinfulness  of 
sin.  Some  of  them,  as  I  remember,  a  good  many  of 
them,  who  talked  in  that  meeting  were  in  mature 
life.  Younger  people  coming  to  Christ  under  the  train- 
ing of  the  church,  would  not  have  such  a  clear  con- 
ception of  the  sinfulness  of  sin.  They  ought  to  have 
a  very  clear  conception  of  themselves  as  sinners.  If 
they  do  not,  I  do  not  see  how  there  can  be  any  genuine 
work.  That  revival  did  a  great  work  for  this  com- 
munity and  for  this  church,  and  there  has  been  a 
great  number  here  in  all  these  years  since  who  were 
then  lifted  up  to  a  higher  plane  of  Christian  life, 
from  which  they  have  never  departed. 

The  Pastor  :  It  is  very  pleasant  to  hear  from 
the  brethren  of  the  church  in  that  way.  He  suggests 
to  us  how  much  of  an  evolution  there  has  been  in  the 
way  of  our  services. 

One  suggestion  that  Brother  Wight  made  recalls 
to  my  mind  a  remark  on  Sunday  morning  after  ser- 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  319 

vices,  by  Mr.  Fernando  Jones,  who  is  very  much  in- 
terested in  all  the  pioneers  of  the  city.  He  was 
looking  at  the  portraits  around  the  room,  and  said 
that  I  neglected  to  allude,  as  I  might  have  done,  and 
ought  to  have  done,  to  the  prominent  influence  of 
people  in  this  congregation,  men  in  the  congregation 
especially,  in  the  moulding  of  the  city.  He  pointed 
out  three  or  four  portraits  there  of  men  who  had 
been  early  Mayors  of  the  city.  Mr.  Wentworth  was 
mentioned,  Mr.  B.  W.  Raymond,  Mr.  Chapin  and 
Mr.  W.  S.  Gurney.  He  also  called  attention  to  the 
fact  that  the  first  railroad  we  ever  had  out  here  was 
largely  begun  under  the  inspiration,  I  believe,  of  two 
men  in  the  church,  and  I  noticed  he  named  William 
H.  Brown  and  B.  W.  Raymond.  I  saw  it  noted  in 
one  of  the  histories  of  Chicago  that  it  was  Mr.  Ray- 
mond's influence  that  secured  the  means  of  building 
the  Galena  Railroad,  which  was  the  beginning  of  one 
of  the  most  marvelous  systems  of  railroad  service 
ever  put  into  operation.  And  another  fact  that  came 
up  was  this,  that  the  wide  streets  of  the  city  are  un- 
doubtedly due  to  the  influence  of  this  same  man 
mentioned  last,  Mr.  Raymond,  who  was,  I  think,  the 
third  Mayor  of  Chicago.  I  am  not  sure  that  I  have 
the  facts  exactly,  but  as  I  gathered  them  they  are 
like  this :  Whilst  he  was  Mayor  some  of  the  govern- 
ment property  here  was  to  be  disposed  of,  and  Mr. 
Raymond  made  a  long  journey  to  Washington  on 
purpose  to  induce  the  government  to  cede  a  strip  of 
land  along  one  of  the  streets — I  think  it  was  State 
street — in  order  to  widen  that  street ;  and  that  was 


32O  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

the  beginning  of  the  movement  that  has  given  us 
more  wide  streets,  one  of  the  greatest  advantages 
that  one  can  well  think  of  in  a  city,  and  without 
which  our  high  buildings  would  be  practically  an  im- 
possibility, whether  they  are  an  advantage  or  a  dis- 
advantage. 

Mr.  Bouton  has  been  kind  enough  to  come 
amongst  us  this  evening.  He  was  Superintendent 
for  a  great  many  years  of  the  Sunday-school,  and 
prominent  in  the  Olivet  Church,  as  he  has  been 
prominent  subsequently  in  the  Evangelical  Church 
of  Kenwood.  We  should  be  glad  to  hear  from  him, 
and  from  any  one  else  in  the  church. 

Mr.  N.  S.  Bouton  arose  and  spoke  as  follows :  My 
early  connection  with  the  church  began  in  the  fall  of 
1857.  Previous  to  that  time  I  used  to  attend  this 
church  in  the  evening,  but  always  attended  the  Uni- 
tarian Church  in  the  morning.  In  the  summer  of 
1856  I  became  aware  that  there  was  a  little  prayer 
meeting  organized  by  a  few  of  the  ladies  of  the  church, 
and  that  they  met  every  noon,  except  Saturday, 
for  prayer  that  their  husbands  might  be  brought  into 
the  church ;  prayer  that  there  might  be  a  revival  in 
the  church;  prayer  that  those  who  named  God's 
name  should  manifest  the  truth  more  and  more.  In 
the  winter  of  1857  came  that  great  revival,  and  the 
church  was  filled  with  the  Spirit  of  God.  Before 
the  revival  I  rarely  went  to  Wednesday  evening 
meetings.  I  would  go  with  my  wife  over  to  the  door 
and  there  leave  her,  and  go  after  her  at  the  proper 
time.  But  when  I  went  into  the  prayer  meeting, 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  321 

into  that  long,  dark  and  uncomfortable  prayer  meet- 
ing room  of  the  Second  Church,  the  same  pall 
that  was  upon  the  room  was  upon  everybody  that 
was  in  there.  It  wasn't  a  very  warm  meeting 
to  those  who  were  not  very  much  interested  in  relig- 
ious matters,  and  I  was  not  particularly  interested 
in  that  kind  of  religion  ;  but  as  the  revival  came  on, 
as  the  Spirit  began  to  manifest  himself,  there  came 
to  be  a  great  awakening  amongst  the  young  men 
who  were  then  in  the  church,  and  Mr.  Brown  and 
Mr.  Holt  and  two  or  three  others  of  the  active  young 
men  used  to  have  an  evening  meeting  in  which  those 
who  felt  interested  in  religious  matters  could  be 
gathered  together,  and  so  they  piloted  and  led  them 
on  step  by  step  until  they  came  out  into  the  light  of 
Gospel  truth.  I  remember  those  meetings  with  a 
great  deal  of  interest,  and  while,  as  Brother  Wight, 
said,  there  did  not  seem  to  be  any  great,  strong 
enthusiasm,  there  was  a  deep  feeling  that  was  mani- 
fested always.  About  the  first  Sabbath  in  May, 
1858,  was  the  first  real  strong  union  with  the  church ; 
nearly  all  of  those  who  united  with  the  church  then 
remained  active  Christian  men  and  women  through- 
out life.  I  only  remember  one  single  one  of  that 
number  who  fell  away.  I  went  into  the  Olivet 
Church,  and  I  remember  very  well  the  time  when  I 
went  in  there.  I  felt  it  my  duty  to  go  into  the  the 
Olivet  Church  instead  of  going  down  town  to  church r 
because  it  was  nearer.  I  sent  my  children  into  the 
church  and  to  the  Sabbath-school,  and  I  thought  I 
ought  to  go  there  myself,  and  so  I  went  to  the 


322  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

Sabbath-school  and  the  church;  and  so  I  became 
associated  with  that  church,  and  with  the  Sabbath- 
school  as  superintendent.  I  had  many  talks  with 
Mr.  Wight  in  relation  to  his  work  as  pastor.  For 
quite  a  time  I  was  one  of  the  elders.  Mr.  Wight 
was  a  very  earnest  man.  I  remember  I  said  to  him 
one  day,  "  How  is  it,  Mr.  Wight,  that  you  are  so 
thoroughly  indoctrinated,  when  you  have  never  made 
the  subject  a  matter  of  very  much  study  ?  "  "Well," 
he  says,  "  the  fact  of  it  is  I  sat  there  under  Dr. 
Patterson's  preaching  for  so  long  a  time ;  and  nobody 
could  sit  under  his  preaching  without  getting  indoc- 
trinated. That  is  the  way  I  came  to  hold  the  views 
which  I  hold  now  so  strongly."  Mr.  Wight  was  one 
of  the  elders  of  the  Olivet  Church,  and  he  went  out 
from  that  church  to  take  the  pastorate  of  another 
church.  The  relationship  between  the  two  churches 
was  always  that  of  mother  and  child,  and  while  the 
churches  were  separated  Olivet  was  a  growing  church. 
Olivet  Church  never  had  but  two  settled  pastors,  Mr. 
Wight  and  Dr.  Eddy.  Mr.  Nichols  and  Mr.  Millard 
and  others  occupied  the  pulpit  for  a  time,  but  never 
were  settled  as  pastors.  There  came  into  that  church 
an  element  which  united  them  together  as  one  per- 
son. Their  social  life  was  somewhat  different 
from  that  of  this  church,  but  they  were  thoroughly 
united,  and  in  their  social  gatherings  they  were 
.always  out,  and  they  were  always  there.  The 
Wednesday  evening  meetings  and  other  evening 
meetings  were  always  largely  attended.  I  think  the 
Olivet  Church  had  a  larger  attendance  at  its  Wednes- 


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day  evening  meeting  than  the  Second  Church  in 
proportion  to  its  numbers,  and  there  was  more  taking- 
part  by  the  various  members  of  the  church.  The 
last  Sabbath  that  the  Second  Church  worshipped  in 
its  old  place  was  the  Sabbath  preceding  the  Fire.  The 
union  would  have  been  made  complete  and  the  two 
churches  united  together  on  the  Sabbath  day  of  Oc- 
tober Qth  for  the  first  time.  By  the  union  of  those  two 
churches,  all  of  the  elders  of  Olivet  Church,  perma- 
nent elders,  came  into  the  session  of  this  church. 
So  they  went  along  together.  I  was  superintendent 
of  the  Sabbath-school,  either  direct  superintendent 
or  assistant  superintendent  of  [the  two  schools,  for 
sixteen  years.  In  those  days  I  used  to  know  all 
the  scholars  of  the  school  by  name,  so  that  I 
could  speak  with  them,  wherever  they  were,  by 
name,  and  a  great  many  pleasant  things  grew 
out  of  that.  So  that  to-day,  as  I  go  to  the  city, 
I  very  often  meet  persons  who  were  then  children 
in  the  Sabbath-school.  Only  about  a  month  ago 
a  young  man  came  into  my  office  who  was  in  the 
Sabbath-school  thirty  years  ago,  and  wanted  to  know 
if  I  recollected  him.  I  asked  him  how  I  came  to 
know  him.  He  told  me  that  I  knew  him  in  the 
Sabbath-school,  and  in  a  few  minutes  I  placed  him. 
I  had  first  met  him  in  connection  with  the  Taylor 
street  school.  He  was  one  of  a  little  family  of  four 
who  lived  down  on  Taylor  street.  The  people  in 
that  section  of  the  city  were  extremely  poor,  and  I 
was  one  of  those  who  went  out  into  the  streets  at 
that  time,  and  made  visits,  as  we  were  advised 


324  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

to  do,  and  I  found  this  family.  I  remembered  dis- 
tinctly I  went  into  the  house.  There  were  no 
chairs ;  there  was  a  little  table,  and  they  were 
standing  up  around  it — four  boys — and  they  were 
eating  flour  mixed  into  batter  with  water,  and 
that  is  what  they  were  having  for  their  meal. 
I  remember  perfectly  how  that  family  of  four 
was  taken  up  by  this  church,  through  its  mission 
work,  and  was  carried  along  until  they  have  all  be- 
come active,  able  persons,  and  have  good  families, 
and  are  active  in  church  work  themselves.  So  we 
look  back  forty  or  fifty  years,  and  it  seems  only 
a  very  short  time ;  but  these  influences  go  on.  They 
reach  forward.  No  one  knows  anything  at  all  about 
it.  We  guess  at  them,  but  they  are  going  forward. 

We  speak  of  our  fifty  years  here.  I  came  out  here 
from  a  church  in  New  Bngland  that  had  had  four 
pastors  in  150  years,  and  only  four  pastors.  That 
might  have  been  a  common  event  down  East,  but  this 
is  a  very  uncommon  event  with  three  pastors  and  all 
living. 

The  Pastor  :  We  shall  be  glad  to  hear  from  Dr. 
Andrews,  Mr.  Foote,  Mr.  Ward  and  General  Brown, 
as  well  as  any  others  who  have  reminiscences  to 
give  us. 

Dr.  Edmund  Andrews  spoke  as  follows :  My 
reminiscences  are  a  little  irregular  and  disjointed. 
There  are  a  good  many  of  them,  but  they  don't  seem 
to  assume  any  very  systematic  shape  as  I  look  back. 

I  came  here  in  1856,  or  '55,  I  forget  which  now, 
and  I  united  directly  with  the  Second  Presbyterian 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  325 

Church,  and  I  can  recall  some  differences  in  the 
church  and  in  the  community  between  that  time  and 
this.  Chicago  at  that  time  was  a  wild  place  in  a  good 
many  respects,  besides  being  a  mud  hole;  and  the 
people  were  not  exactly  smoothed  off  and  polished 
down  in  their  demeanor.  I  think  I  could  say  that  in 
proportion  to  the  population  you  could  see  about  fif- 
teen times  as  many  men  leaning  against  lamp-posts 
or  lying  drunk  on  the  edges  of  sidewalks  that  were 
elevated  on  stilts — as  you  see  now.  There  has  been 
an  improvement  in  public  morals,  and  there  has  been 
an  improvement  in  manners.  I  think  it  is  quite  likely 
that  some  of  you  know  that  when  you  get  fifteen  or 
twenty  Presbyterians  into  a  controversy,  where  there 
is  a  difference  of  opinion  brought  out,  you  will  find 
that  they  won't  get  out  of  that  little  dispute  without 
some  of  them  throwing  out  either  directly  or  indi- 
rectly a  few  insinuations,  a  little  mean  slight  on  the 
motives  which  induced  the  others  to  take  such  a 
"  preposterous  course."  But  I  think  it  is  pretty  good 
now  as  compared  with  what  Chicago  and  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  used  to  be  back  in  the  ante- 
diluvian times  when  I  came  here.  Outside  of  the 
churcji  there  was  no  pretense  to  courtesy  in  such 
matters.  There  is  a  very  good  example  of  this  sort 
which  I  might  state  of  an  old  infidel  crank  named 
Seth  Paine,  who  took  it  into  his  head  that  he  would 
publish  a  newspaper,  and  made  some  very  sharp 
attacks  on  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church.  I  can- 
not quote  them  word  for  word — I  never  was  good  at 
making  exact  quotations — but  I  can  give  you  the 


326  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

substance  of  it ;  that  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church 
consisted  of  a  miscellaneous  lot  of  rascals  who  assem- 
bled once  a  week  and  listened  to  the  demonstrations 
of  that  old  hypocrite,  Dr.  R.  W.  Patterson.  I  don't 
know  what  became  of  it  as  a  newspaper,  but  it  faded 
out  of  sight.  Another  instance  was  that  of  an  active 
young  physician  in  those  days,  who  was  ambitious 
and  who  had  a  pretty  good  education,  but  who 
had  been  brought  up  in  a  home  which  was  hostile  to 
Christianity.  As  he  was  ambitious  and  desirous  of  dis- 
tinguishing himself  in  medical  literature,  he  founded 
a  new  medical  journal.  He  sent  me  a  copy  of  it 
one  time,  in  which  there  was  a  somewhat  fierce  and 
ill-natured  slant  against  Christians  for  holding  their 
opinions  and  notions.  I  knew  him  pretty  well, 
and  I  knew  he  had  a  great  many  good  qualities 
in  him,  and  I  also  knew  the  unenviable  character  of 
his  bringing  up,  yet  thought  he  was  going  to  be 
something.  Well,  I  sat  down  and  wrote  him  a  let- 
ter and  called  his  attention  to  the  fact  that  a  great 
many  of  us  believed  in  those  Christian  notions  ;  that 
there  were  a  great  many  physicians  who  believed 
in  these  Christian  notions  against  which  he  had 
made  such  a  vigorous  attack ;  and  of  those  who 
did  not  believe  in  them  very  fully,  some  were  in 
doubt,  but  all  of  them  had  Christian  families  under 
their  charge,  for  whom  they  had  a  warm  friendship 
and  whose  opinions  they  respected,  even  though  they 
did  not  adopt  them,  and  that  all  these  medical  men 
would  spurn  his  medical  journal  with  disgust  if  they 
found  him  assailing  the  opinions  which  they  knew  to 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  327 

be  held  so  dear  and  so  tenderly  by  their  closest 
friends.  Well,  he  had  a  great  deal  of  friendship  for 
me,  for  I  had  helped  him  considerably,  and  I 
told  him  the  medical  profession  would  drop  his 
journal  out  of  sight  if  he  didn't  drop  that  kind  of 
talk.  He  took  it  kindly,  and  sent  me  his  edito- 
rials for  some  time  after,  and  I  never  saw  any- 
thing more  against  Christianity  in  his  journal.  He 
smoothed  off  a  little.  Still  at  the  time  I  came  here 
I  think  we  were  all — I  don't  say  the  Second  Presby- 
terian Church  particularly — but  we  were  all  generally 
in  a  habit  of  getting  at  things  in  a  lively  kind  of  a 
way,  and  we  didn't  always  regard  each  other's  feelings 
at  that  time  perhaps  as  we  should.  I  think  there 
was  a  little  more  of  the  rhinocerous  than  there  was 
of  the  gazelle  in  us.  It  came  out  a  little  when 
we  came  to  discuss  the  matter  of  the  moving  the 
church.  We  did  not  get  out  of  that  discussion  without 
some  most  excellent  men  whom  everybody  respected 
and  whose  good  character  and  Christian  qualities  were 
above  all  suspicion,  putting,  a  little  obliquely,  I  might 
say,  in  their  discussions,  probably  some  on  each  sidey 
more  or  less  of  the  insinuation,  and  occasionally 
something  slightly  approaching  a  direct  charge  of 
unchristian  and  improper  motives  on  this  or  the  other 
side.  There  were  those  that  wanted  to  move  and 
those  that  didn't  want  to  move,  and  we  couldn't  get 
through  that  discussion  without  more  or  less  friction. 
We  old  fellows  did  not  like  the  appearance  of  it,  and 
resolved  to  reform.  We  had  a  discussion  and  got 
through  it  pretty  well,  with  a  little  friction  with  some 


328  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

of  the  members.  I  recollect  the  occasion  of  the  final 
meeting  that  settled  the  question.  The  main  ques- 
tion that  had  been  up  was  something  that  practically 
settled  it.  We  met  in  the  old  lecture  room  of  the  old 
building  to  discuss  the  matter  on  one  afternoon,  and 
those  who  were  opposed  to  moving  urged  it  most 
earnestly;  and  then  our  good  Judge  Hawes,  who  was 
not  judge  then,  and,  as  he  said  last  night,  not  mar- 
ried, and  therefore  not  trained  up  altogether  in  the 
way  he  should  go,  appeared  with  his  pocket  full  of 
proxies  from  voters,  members,  and  assumed  to  have  a 
majority  in  favor  of  staying  down  town.  I  didn't  see 
that  there  was  anything  wrong  about  that,  so  I  didn't 
say  anything,  but  still  I  thought  we  were  being  a  little 
outgeneraled,  as  we  had  not  thought  of  it  on  our  side. 
So  after  looking  the  field  over  we  saw  that  in  spite  of 
the  pile  of  proxies  we  were  still  in  a  pretty  good 
majority  in  favor  of  moving,  so  we  went  on  with  it, 
and  there  was  a  good  deal  of  discussion,  and  not  al- 
ways of  the  character  perhaps  we  would  like.  As  the 
afternoon  went  on  another  thing  loomed  up  in  front 
of  us.  We  didn't  have  so  many  ways  of  getting  out 
south  as  we  have  now.  It  was  very  important  in 
those  times  for  the  men  who  lived  in  the  south  part 
of  the  city  to  move  matters  that  way,  and  thus  those 
who  wanted  the  church  moved  south  were  men  who 
lived  down  that  way.  As  the  afternoon  went  on  the 
brethren  who  wanted  the  church  to  stay  down  town 
kept  talking,  and  as  the  time  approached  when  the 
majority  who  wanted  to  move  south  wanted  to  take 
their  train  home  the  other  side  thought  of  more 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  329 


things  that  they  wanted  to  say,  and  they  kept  saying 
them.  Sometimes  they  said  them  two  or  three  times 
over  ;  and  in  short,  the  unchristian  supposition  dawned 
on  our  minds  that  they  were  talking  against  time, 
and  desirous  of  continuing  the  discussion  until  the 
majority  had  gone  home.  We  saw  the  difficulty. 
That  stal worth  John  Wentworth — "Long  John"  we 
used  to  call  him,  was  there,  engineering — not  the 
machine,  but  the  movement.  (Laughter.)  I  saw 
what  was  ahead,  and  it  was  evident  that  unless  that 
discussion  should  be  stopped  the  church  would  stay 
down  town — there  would  be  only  down-town  people 
left  to  vote.  So  after  thinking  it  over  a  little,  and 
without  consultation  with  anybody  else  I  rose  and 
moved  the  previous  question.  Now  perhaps  the 
ladies  here  who  have  never  attended  debating  socie- 
ties do  not  know  exactly  what  that  is.  It  is  a  motion, 
the  .effect  of  which  is  to  order  an  immediate  vote  upon 
the  main  question.  So  I  got  the  floor,  moved 
the  previous  question  and  had  it  seconded.  John 
Wentworth  sprung  up  and  said,  u  The  previous  ques- 
tion? "  You  can't  move  the  previous  question  here. 
We  are  not  going  to  have  the  gag  law  here."  Well, 
I  got  up  and  said  "This  body  has  the  right  to  stop 
an  unreasonably  lengthy  discussion,  and  insist  on 
the  previous  question  being  put."  T  addressed  that 
to  the  chairman.  Well,  the  chairman — I  don't  re- 
member who  he  was,  but  he  was  a  good-hearted  old 
fellow,  who  didn't  know  much  about  parliamentary 
usage,  didn't  know  for  the  moment  what  the  previous 
question  meant,  and  when  he  tried  to  put  it  he  didn't 


33O  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


put  it  the  right  way.  I  instructed  him  as  to  what 
the  proper  order  was,  and  how  to  put  the  previous 
question.  John  Wentworth  got  up  again  and  said, 
"  I  tell  you  you  can't  move  the  previous  question 
here."  I  said,  "  Well,  I  have  moved  it,  and  am  going 
to  see  it  put  through."  So  after  considerable  diffi- 
culty I  got  it  dawning  through  the  chairman's  head 
what  the  previous  question  meant  and  how  he  should 
put  it,  so  he  put  the  previous  question  and  an  imme- 
diate vote  was  ordered,  and  we  carried  it  and  went 
home.  As  we  broke  up  to  move  out,  Long  John 
Wentworth  said,  "  Who  is  that  fellow  that  stuck  the 
previous  question  into  us  ?  " 

Now  I  don't  want  to  go  over  all  those  things  again. 
The  longer  I  live  the  more  I  hate  a  discussion  which 
has  spears  in  it.  And  I  think  it  is  well  that  we 
should  cultivate  a  little  of  the  spirit  of  an  old  knight 
who  lived  in  the  middle  ages,  mentioned  by  one  of 
the  novelists.  He  was  such  a  chivalrous,  valiant  old 
knight,  that  whenever  he  saw  another  knight  he  said 
he  was  a  most  worthy  man,  and  it  was  a  great  pleas- 
ure to  meet  him.  And  whenever  he  wanted  to 
fight  with  a  knight,  "  Would  it  not  please  your 
honor  if  we  should  have  a  little  knightly  discussion 
with  our  spears  ?  "  Well*,  differences  of  opinion  will 
always  exist,  and  they  must  always  be  settled.  But 
if  we  look  at  the  community  as  it  is  now,  and  look  at 
this  church  as  it  is  now,  it  seems  that  if  we  had  taken 
the  same  care  in  those  days  as  we  do  now,  there  would 
not  have  been  as  many  spears  thrust  as  were  in  those 
days.  But  I  think  there  is  opportunity  for  improve- 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  331 

ment  yet.  A  man  is  not  a  true  Christian,  or  a  per- 
fect Christian,  until  he  can  hold  a  discussion  with 
differences  of  opinion  and  endeavor  to  carry  his  points 
by  keeping  his  language  always  courteous  and 
always  kind,  and  his  movements  always  honorable. 
Those  are  some  of  the  essential  points  of  Christianity. 

The  Pastor :  Can  we  hear  something  about  the 
mission  schools  of  the  church  ?  I  was  told  last  night 
that  the  Christian  Association  of  this  church  organ- 
ized the  first  mission  school,  and  was  the  first  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Ward 
and  Mr.  Brown  know  something  about  that,  and  we 
will  be  glad  to  hear  from  them. 

Mr.  Ward  arose  and  spoke  as  follows:  Doctor 
McPherson  told  me  last  night,  "  I  had  always  thought 
you  were  a  young  fellow,  but  I  have  seen  your  name 
associated  with  so  many  ancient  things  lately  that 
perhaps  I  am  wrong."  I  replied,  "That  is  the  very 
reason  I  am  young  and  expect  to  continue  so."  This 
church,  in  an  early  day,  certainly  had  the  faculty  of 
setting  its  young  men  to  work  and  of  keeping  them 
at  work.  I  don't  think  there  were  any  drones  in  the 
church  in  those  days.  We  were  always  kept  busy 
with  one  thing  and  another.  We  had  the  Sabbath- 
school,  and  the  Taylor  Street  Mission,  of  which  I  had 
the  privilege  of  being  the  superintendent  for  twelve 
years,  and  I  wish  to  bear  testimony  to  the  faithful 
band  that  was  associated  there  at  that  Taylor  street 
school.  They  were  not  satisfied  merely  with  coming 
together  on  the  Sabbath  and  teaching  their  classes,  but 
they  went  around  the  streets  and  into  the  families, 


332  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

found  out  where  the  children  were  and  gathered  them 
in,  and  took  care  of  them  after  they  were  in.  We 
have  seen  the  results  of  that.  Mr.  Bouton  spoke  of 
a  young  man  calling  at  his  office.  Two  brothers  of 
that  young  man  called  at  my  office  one  day.  They 
were  dressed  neatly ;  one  of  them  was  at  the  head  of 
a  department  in  a  large  machine-shop.  The  other 
one  was  residing  in  Brooklyn,  engaged  in  business 
there,  and  was  superintendent  of  a  Sabbath-school. 
Both  earnest  Christian  men.  And  I  have  had  so 
many  persons  come  to  me,  and  say,  at  different  times, 
"  I  used  to  be  in  the  Taylor  Street  Sabbath-school." 

During  the  war  we  contributed  four  of  our  teachers 
and  many  of  our  scholars  to  the  army.  I  went  down  to 
Cairo  with  some  who  were  sent  there  in  the  early  part 
of  the  war  and  spent  a  Sabbath  there,  reaching  there 
Saturday  night,  and  we  went  out  early  Sabbath  morn- 
ing to  see  if  we  could  find  church  service.  We  met 
three  soldiers  coming  away  from  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  they  said  there  was  no  service ;  the 
church  was  locked.  We  all  went  together  to  the  Meth- 
odist Church,  and  we  found  the  soldier-boys  there,  and 
they  and  the  others  who  were  present,  said  there  was 
not  going  to  be  any  service,  there  was  no  minister 
there ;  there  was  no  minister  in  town  of  any  denom- 
ination. And  one  of  them,  who  was  connected  with 
the  church,  said,  "  If  you  have  a  mind  to  conduct 
services  here,  you  may."  I  told  him  that  that  was 
not  my  line,  but  I  thought  it  was  shameful  to  have  a 
day  pass  when  there  were  so  many  present  accus- 
tomed to  attend  church,  without  having  an  oppor- 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  333 

tunity  to  worship  together.  Well,  the  church  was 
opened  up,  and  it  was  filled,  and  we  had  a  very 
pleasant  day.  I  came  back  here  and  reported  the 
facts  to  the  Wednesday  night  meeting,  and  this 
church,  with  its  usual  promptness  and  energy  in 
such  cases,  said  "These  things  must  not  be,  and 
we  must  do  something  about  it."  There  was  Elder 
Williams,  who  was  always  fond  of  good  deeds.  He 
said,  u  I  will  raise  the  money,  if  you  can  only 
find  a  man  to  send  down  there."  We  did  find  a 
man,*  a  member  of  this  church,  who  was  ready  to 
go  at  once.  This  gentleman  remained  there  until 
the  Sanitary  Commission  was  organized,  and  then 
he  was  appointed  their  agent.  Afterwards  he  was 
ordained  a  minister,  in  order  that  he  might  be  a 
chaplain  of  the  work  which  he  had  been  able  to  ac- 
complish. In  that  work  he  felt  that  he  could  rely 
upon  his  church.  This  church  gave  him  material 
aid,  and  gave  its  heartfelt  sympathy  and  prayers  for 
the  work  he  was  carrying  on  there.  Because  this 
church  did  stand  behind  him  and  did  help  him,  so 
much  was  accomplished  there. 

The  great  trouble  about  speaking  here  on  this 
subject  is  the  temptation  to  speak  too  long.  I  will 
stop  just  where  I  am,  for  fear  I  should  talk  for  an 
hour. 

The  Pastor :  Perhaps  Mr.  Brown  will  say  some- 
thing to  us  on  this  subject. 

Gen.  S.  L.  Brown  spoke  as  follows :  I  am  proba- 
bly the  oldest  Sabbath-school  scholar  in  Chicago. 


*  Rev.  Ezekiel  Folsom. 


334  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

I  came  here  fifty-seven  years  ago,  quite  a  lad. 
The  room  we  met  in  was  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Chicago.  It  was  a  small,  one-story 
wooden  building,  very  plain,  and  cost  probably  $300, 
size  40x60 ;  situated  on  Clark  Street  on  the  alley 
between  Randolph  and  Lake.  The  building  stood 
lengthwise  with  the  street,  about  twenty  feet  back 
from  the  sidewalk,  which  consisted  of  two  boards 
thrown  along  together  on  sticks  to  keep  them  out  of 
the  mud  and  water.  The  building  was  very  properly 
set  upon  piles,  because  if  it  had  not  been  we  should 
oftentimes  have  been  completely  drowned  out.  We 
had  a  very  easy  way  of  draining  by  a  ditch  down 
the  street  along  to  the  river.  I  remember  one  Sab- 
bath I  came  to  church,  bringing  my  father's  family 
in  a  cart.  We  used  carts  in  those  days  to  go  to 
church.  I  got  the  family  to  church  very  well,  and 
I  could  back  up  as  far  as  the  two  boards,  but  I 
couldn't  get  any  further,  so  I  landed  my  cargo  on 
the  boards,  and  there  they  stood  waiting  with  some 
other  parts  of  the  congregation,  for  some  way  of 
getting  into  the  church,  which  was  completely  sur- 
rounded by  water.  Some  very  ambitious  men,  to 
help  us  out  of  our  difficulty,  went  down  to  the  river, 
which  was  a  block  and  a  half  away,  where  a  big  vessel 
lay  under  the  Clark  Street  bridge,  and  got  a  yawl 
boat  and  brought  it  up  the  ditch  and  got  it  over  the 
sidewalk,  and  made  a  swinging  bridge  between  the 
edge  of  the  sidewalk  and  the  church.  So  that  diffi- 
culty was  overcome. 

I  remember  very  well  the  Sabbath-school.     There 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  335 

were  some  noble  Christian  men  in  it.  Some  men 
whose  names  are  on  our  roll  that  are  not  altogether 
unknown  to  some  of  those  who  are  here.  There  is 
Mr.  Hunter,  a  most  excellent  Christian  man,  and 
Mr.  Merrill,  a  better  man  I  never  came  to  know ; 
foremost  in  the  Sunday-school,  visiting  families 
from  time  to  time,  carrying  little  gospel  tracts  and 
books  with  him  ;  always  present  at  our  meetings  for 
prayer.  I  remember  when  the  40x60  building  was 
put  upon  rollers — and  you  know  how  we  move  build- 
ings here  now — and  we  moved  it  up  a  good  way 
from  the  city  then.  We  moved  it  up  as  far  as  a  little 
south  of  Washington  street  and  placed  it  on  the 
alley  on  Clark  street  between  Madison  and  Wash- 
ington. We  stood  it  properly  on  the  street  at  that 
time,  putting  the  front  door  up  to  the  sidewalk,  and 
built  a  small  addition  of  twenty  feet  on  the  back  of 
it,  so  the  room  was  40x80.  Well,  that  soon  filled  up 
and  we  needed  an  addition,  so  they  put  up  another 
building  right  by  the  side  of  it,  40x80,  and  we  had  a 
very  respectable  building,  quite  a  large  one.  That 
room  was  full  every  Sabbath,  and  filled  with  a  band 
of  as  excellent  Christian  men  and  women  as  any 
church  ever  had  in  this  world. 

I  never  shall  forget  one  night  I  went  into  that 
church.  I  had  fastened  my  horse  and  cart  in  the 
alley  and  came  in  late,  and  I  sat  down  by  the  big 
stove,  which  they  used  to  have,  big  enough  to  warm 
the  entire  church,  and  the  stove-pipe  ran  straight 
along  the  whole  length  of  it  and  landed  in  the  chim- 
ney. Dr.  Blatchford  was  the  pastor  of  the  church. 


336  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

I  sat  down  by  the  fire  until  I  could  go  down  to  the 
pew  where  my  father's  family  were  sitting,  and  the 
old  Doctor  announced  his  text,  "  Behold,  I  stand  at 
the  door  and  knock."  I  have  never  forgotten  that  ser- 
mon. It  lives  in  my  memory  to  this  day.  It  was 
the  first  thing  that  ever  led  me  to  take  one  step  to- 
ward the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  as  my  Saviour.  The 
Doctor  announced  at  the  close  that  he  would  have  a 
meeting  for  any  one  who  wanted  to  talk  with  him  at 
his  house  next  Friday  evening.  A  friend,  whom 
you  all  now  know,  an  honored  citizen,  and  I  agreed 
that  next  Friday  evening  we  would  go  there.  We 
presented  ourselves  before  the  good  old  Doctor.  He 
looked  at  us  and  says,  "  Well,  boys,  what  do  you 
want?"  I  had  to  be  the  spokesman,  and  I  said, 
"  Doctor,  we  came  here  to  talk  with  you  because  you 
have  invited  us  to  come,  to  speak  to  us  about  our 
souls."  Well,  I  never  have  forgotten  that  meeting. 
I  think  that  both  of  us  began  the  Christian  life 
there,  and  we  have  been  firm  Christians  ever  since. 

There  is  one  thing  connected  with  that  old  church 
that  has  a  great  deal  to  do  with  the  life  of  this. 
Just  before  our  church  was  formed  there  was  a  re- 
vival of  religion  under  the  Rev.  Dr.  Gallagher,  a 
gentleman  who  has  long  since  gone  home.  A  man 
whose  voice  was  heard  for  Christ  from  the  Southern 
Arkansas  River  all  along  the  Mississippi  River 
Valley.  He  was  the  great  evangelist  of  that  early 
day.  A  man  who  weighed  about  300  pounds,  he 
never  entered  the  pulpit,  always  stood  in  front,  a 
man  whose  voice  both  in  word  and  tone  drew  the 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  337 

people  and  commanded  then*  attention.  It  was  just 
after  that  that  our  church  was  organized,  and  we 
came  out  of  the  old  church  bringing  with  us  into 
this  church  the  spirit  of  that  revival.  We  be- 
gan our  Sabbath-school  work  that  the  Doctor  very 
kindly  spoke  of  in  his  sermon  last  Sabbath,  almost 
immediately  after  our  church  was  organized.  One 
of  the  ladies  who  ,was  a  teacher  in  our  first 
mission  is  here  to-night,  Mrs.  Lawrence,  and  with 
the  exception  of  herself  and  Mr.  Thomas,  I  know 
of  no  others  who  are  now  connected  with  our 
church  or  with  our  Christian  work.  We  hired  a 
little  building  and  began  our  work.  We  never 
stopped.  The  mission  work  went  on.  We  hired  a 
school-room  on  the  north  side  of  the  river,  and 
went  right  out  there,  some  three  or  four  of  us,  and 
visited  every  house  on  the  north  side  of  the  river. 
Now  that  may  seem  to  be  pretty  hard  work,  but  it 
wasn't  hard  work  then.  We  invited  the  children  in. 
The  first  Sabbath  we  had  from  twenty-five  to  thirty 
children.  The  next  Sabbath  our  room  was  full,  and 
I  could  say  almost  without  boasting,  our  room  has 
been  full  ever  since,  no  matter  what  we  have  had, 
and  for  forty-nine  years  that  school  has  never  been 
closed,  except  on  the  Sabbath  just  after  the  fire. 
We  went  up  there  after  the  fire  and  we  found  a  num- 
ber of  children  had  come  down  there.  We  sang 
over  some  of  our  Sabbath-school  hymns  and  had 
prayer,  and  made  arrangements  for  a  meeting  on  the 
west  side  of  the  river  on  the  next  Sabbath.  Oh,  I 
cannot  begin  to  tell  you  the  result  of  that  Sabbath- 


33$  SECOND    PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


school  work !  It  has  remained  in  the  hearts  of  a 
great  many  hundreds,  I  think  I  could  say,  of  honest 
Christian  men  and  women.  It  has  remained  in  the 
hearts  of  some  of  the  best  men  we  have  in  Chicago. 
It  remained  in  the  life  of  some  of  those  who  have 
stood  in  the  pulpit.  Bradford  Y.  Averell  was  a  little 
boy  only  so  big,  when  we  began  our  mission  work. 
He  was  one  of  our  mission  scholars.  And  I  think 
that  our  Sabbath-school  had  a  great  deal  to  do  with 
his  success. 

I  meet  a  great  many  who  have  grown  to  man's 
estate  as  I  go  through  the  city  and  through  the 
country,  and  it  has  always  been  a  rule  of  mine  when 
a  scholar  comes  up  to  recognize  him ;  of  course  I 
cannot  recognize  them  all  in  their  change  from  child- 
hood to  manhood  and  womanhood,  but  when  they 
stop  me  on  the  street  and  call  me  by  name  and  tell 
me  they  were  my  scholars,  I  ask  them  this  ques- 
tion :  "  Are  you  a  Christian  ?  "  And  I  think  with 
but  one  exception  I  have  had  the  answer  from  every 
one,  "  I  am."  And  a  great  many  of  them  are  earnest, 
active  Christian  men  and  women  in  different  churches 
in  our  city  now. 

The  Pastor:  I  was  reminded  by  Dr.  Patterson— 
who  does  not  forget  many  things — that  in  the  ser- 
mon Sunday  morning  I  neglected  to  mention  the 
fact  that  only  within  the  past  few  years,  about  the 
middle  of  my  own  pastorate,  has  the  church  ever  had 
a  Board  of  Deacons,  as  distinct  from  a  Board  of 
Elders.  That  will  be  made  perfectly  clear  in  the 
history  of  the  church  about  to  be  issued. 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  339 

The  Pastor :  Our  time  has  passed  very  quickly, 
and  it  is  getting  late.  However  we  are  anxious  to 
hear  as  many  as  will  favor  us. 

Mr.  Bouton  :  There  is  a  single  word  I  will  say  in 
connection  with  the  work  of  the  church  in  regard  to 
the  Rev.  E.  R.  Davis.  I  see  him  here.  In  the  early 
days  of  the  Presbyterian  league,  the  work  of  selecting 
and  obtaining  desirable  locations  devolved  more  upon 
the  persons  in  connection  with  this  church  than 
any  other.  Mr.  Davis  and  myself  found  the  lot 
which  was  afterwards  occupied  by  the  Forty-first 
Street  Church,  and  it  was  turned  over  afterward. 
Undoubtedly,  without  the  work  which  had  been  done 
through  the  Presbyterian  League,  that  field  down 
there  would  not  have  been  occupied  by  the  Presby- 
terians. 

The  Pastor :  Mr.  Davis  has  been  here  a  great 
many  years — nearly  twenty-five  or  thirty,  and  he  has 
been  one  of  the  most  faithful  of  our  people.  It  is 
simply  true  to  say  that  he  has  worn  himself  out  in 
the  work  of  the  Master.  I  never  meet  Brother  Davis 
now  without  feeling  my  heart  stir.  Perhaps  he  will 
say  a  word  to,  us. 

Mr.  Davis  spoke  as  follows .  Just  a  word  in 
respect  to  the  mission.  I  came  here  a  little  over 
twenty-five  years  ago.  The  first  two  years  I  spent 
as  missionary  or  minister  of  the  Board  of  Missions. 
In  connection  with  that  mission  I  have  a  very  pleas- 
ant memory  of  some  of  the  young  ladies  and  gentle- 
men of  this  congregation  who  helped  me  to  conduct 
those  Sabbath-schools.  I  wish  to  mention  one  fact 


34°  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

that  may  be  of  interest :  I  had  one  winter  a  Bible 
class,  and  in  that  Bible  class  I  had  a  young  man 
who  was  thoughtful  towards  the  ministry,  and  I  did 
what  I  could  to  encourage  him  and  help  him.  He  is 
now  preaching  the  gospel  at  San  Francisco — I  refer 
to  Dr.  McKenzie. 


LETTERS. 
'  CABLE  MESSAGE  FROM  DR.  GIBSON. 

Saint  John's  Wood,  London,  wishes  Second 
Church  all  Jubilee  blessings.  Ephesians  iii.  14-19. 

LETTER  FROM  THE  REV.  M.  WOOLSEY  STRYKER,  D.D.,  FOURTH 
PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH,  CHICAGO. 

MY-  DEAR  BROTHER  :  It  is  a  great  regret  to  me 
that  I  shall  be  out  of  the  city  on  next  Monday  night, 
and  so  that  I  cannot  answer  to  my  name  when  the 
general  roll  is  called  of  your  friends,  new  and  old. 

I  congratulate  you  upon  the  story  of  the  noble 
Second  Church.  .  .  .  That  in  this  city  of  stir  and 
change  such  a  church  has  had  but  three  pastors  is  of 
itself  phenomenal  and  exemplary.  May  it  be  long 
before  the  number  is  increased. 

There  is  nothing  that  has  made  for  the  growth  in 
good  of  this  tremendous  town,  in  which  the  Second 
Church  has  not  had  an  active  influence.  By  its 
words  and  deeds  it  has  told  nobly  all  this  half  cen- 
tury. What  colonies  it  has  sent  out ! 

The  Fourth  Church  stands  up  as  one  of  the  eldest 
daughters  to  kiss  the  matronly  brow  and  honor  the 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  341 

mother  who,  at  her  golden  wedding,  is  still  as  young 
and  fair  as  ever. 

I  think  there  are  more  of  the  brood  in  our  com- 
pany now  than  in  any  other  one  church  of  this  city. 
They  will  throng  to  the  feast  with  unanimous  love. 

May  these  holidays  of  memory  be  holy  to  you  all, 
with  new  hope  and  strong  reanimated  purpose. 

Our  work  is  one  —  one  with  all  the  churches  knit 
together  in  our  staunch  Presbytery,  and  one,  thank 
God,  with  u  the  blessed  company  of  all  faithful 
people." 

Whole-hearted  greetings  to  you  for  myself,  and  iri 
the  larger  behalf  of  my  own  dear  church.  The  little 
one  has  become  a  thousand  ;  long  may  it  abide  under 
the  shadow  of  the  Almighty. 

LETTER  FROM  REV.  JEREMIAH  PORTER. 

BELOIT,  Wis. 
MR.  JOHN  C.  GRANT, 

Beloved  Friend: —  .  .  .  The  kind  request  of  the 
Session  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  to  be 
present  at  its  semi-centennial  celebration  was  sent 
to  me.  .  .  .  Would  that  I  could  make  my  answer  an 
affirmative  one.  Having  known  its  first  pastor  on 
his  way  to  Chicago  to  supply  the  pulpit  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  for  a  time  in  the  absence  of  Mr. 
Bascom,  and  having  honored  Dr.  Patterson  for  fifty 
years,  and  some  of  its  first  members  having  been  my 
personal  friends,  including  my  cousins,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
John  C.  Williams,  the  parents  of  Mrs.  E-  W.  Blatch- 
ford,  how  happy  I  should  be  to  partake  of  your  joys, 


342  SECOND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 


as  you  see  what  God  has  wrought  by  its  former  two 
pastors  and  their  most  worthy  successor.  As  God  in 
his  loving  kindness  permitted  me  to  lay  the  founda- 
tion of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  at  Chicago  in 
1833,  in  a  population  of  less  than  two  hundred  (out- 
side of  Fort  Dearborn) ,  only  fifty-nine  years  ago,  and 
to  commemorate  its  fiftieth  year  with  its  present  pas- 
tor, how  happy  I  should  be,  on  this  neiv  Jubilee  in  a 
city  of  one  million  and  a  quarter  of  people,  to  present 
myself  among  you,  and  partake  of  your  joys  and 
join  in  your  prayers  for  the  Chicago  of  the  future! 

May  it  be  true,  not  of  its  churches  only  and  col- 
leges and  universities,  but  of  its  laws  and  govern- 
ment, that  it  is  a  city  "•  built  upon  the  foundation  of 
the  apostles  and  prophets,  Jesus  Christ  himself  being 
the  chief  corner  stone." 

The  feebleness  of  fourscore  and  seven  and  a  half 

V 

years  must  be  my  apology  for  absence  from  your 
anticipated  reunion. 

May  it  be  more  joyful  than  your  highest  anticipa- 
tions, and  be  evermore  one  of  the  many  churches 
using  effectually  "the  gospel  of  Christ,"  for  "it  is 
the  power  of  God  unto  salvation." 

With  many  hearty  thanks  to  Dr.  McPherson  and 
your  session  for  their  invitation,  I  am  your  loving 
friend,  rejoicing  in  your  joys  in  the  church,  your 
school  and  family,  hoping  that  in  the  future  of  your 
days  to  meet  you  and  your  beloved  parents  in  our 
Father's  house. 


FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.  343 


LETTER  FROM  RT.  REV.  CHARLES  EDWARD  CHENEY,  D.D.,  RECTOR 
OF  CHRIST  R.  E.  CHURCH,  CHICAGO. 

MY  DEAR  COLONEL  JACKSON  : 

Your  kind  note,  inviting  me  to  be  present  on 
Tuesday  evening  next  at  the  reception  in  connection 
with  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  Second  Presbyte- 
rian Church,  is  at  hand.  I  deeply  regret  that  I  am 
just  on  the  eve  of  an  Episcopal  visit  to  our  parishes 
in  the  interior  of  this  state,  and  shall  hardly  be  able 
to  return  earlier  than  Tuesday  night.  Should  I  be 
home  in  time  to  do  so,  I  will  certainly  make  the 
effort  to  be  with  you.  But  I  fear  it  will  be  impossible. 

In  case  I  should  not  reach  the  city  in  time  to  be 
present,  will  you  be  so  good  as  to  offer  the  heartfelt 
congratulations  of  Christ  Church  and  its  rector? 
The  relations  between  the  two  churches  and  their 
pastors  have  ever  been  of  the  kindest  and  most  fra- 
ternal character,  and  none  can  rejoice  more  sincerely 
over  the  honorable  record  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church,  or  feel  a  heartier  gratitude  for  the  work 
it  has  accomplished,  than  its  younger  sister  in 
Christian  work. 


ERRATA. 


Page  xv,  line  8,  for  Elisha  Wadsworth  read  Elisha  S.  Wads- 
worth. 

Page  70,  line  7,  for  Elisha  Wadsworth  read  Elisha  S.  Wads- 
worth. 

Page  70,  Portrait,  for  J.  H.  Burch  read  I.  H.  Burch. 

Page  91,  line  5,  for  Thomas  Murdock  read  Thomas  Murdoch. 

Page  1 13,  line  4,  for  Thomas  Murdock  read  Thomas  Murdoch. 

Page  108,  line  25,  for  $25,000  read  $2,500. 

Page  211,  line  31,  for  Mrs.  George  Steel  read  Mrs.  George 
Steele. 

Page  211,  line  36,  for  Mrs.  E.  H.  Hadduck  read  Mrs.  E.  H. 
Haddock.  « 

Page  213,  line  15,  for  George  S.  Snow  read  George  H.  Snow. 

Page  224,  line  10,  fer  Silvester  Willard  read  Sylvester  Willard. 

Page  313,  lines  2  and  4,  for  Rev.  J.  S.  Wight  read  Rev.  A.  S. 
Wight. 


ADDENDA. 


Page  46,  line  18.  Mention  should  be  made  of  the  beautiful 
marble  Baptismal  Font  presented  to  the  Church  in  1888,  by 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Norman  Williams,  in  memory  of  their  daughter, 
CAROLINE  CATON  WILLIAMS;  and  of  the  massive  and  appropriate 
silver  Communion  Service  presented  to  the  Church  in  1891,  by 
Mrs.  Emilv  Sherrill  Eames. 


344 


INDEX. 


PAGE 

Abell,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S , . . . .     94 

Absent  Members  (list) 154 

Accessions   to   the   Church    in 

1843 26 

Adams,  Rev..W.  W., 

77,  127,  232,  303 

Adams,  Rev.  Ur 317 

Addenda 344 

Addison,  John 43,  47 

Addresses — 

Rev.  J.  H.  Barrows 262 

Rev.  P.  S.  Henson ...     305 

Rev.  J.  G.  K.  McClure 288 

Rev.  S.  J.  McPherson 264 

Rev.  R.  W.  Patterson, 

242,  254,  268 

Rev.  W.  W.  Totheroh 293 

Rev.  J.  S.  Wight 313 

Rev.  J.  L.  Withrow 284 

Advance,  The 126 

Alaska in 

Allen,  Ira  W.,  Jr 82,  209,  210 

Altos  (Choir) 120 

American     Home     Missionary 

Society 22 

Anderson,  Paul 115 

Andrews.  Dr.  Edmund 211,  324 

Andrews,  Dr.  E.  W 210 

Anniversary  (Fiftieth) 207,  209 

Anniversary  Sermon 217 

Architect 32 

Arizona 1 1 1 

Armour,  Allison  V 90,  209 

Armour,  George, 

xiv,  xv,  43,  *45,  46,  66,  70,  71 

*  Portrait.  345 


PAGE 
Armour,  Mrs.  George, 

46,  112,  211,231 

Armour,  Mrs.  Bertha  C 113,  146 

Averell,  A.  J xv,  90,  209,  211 

Averell,  Rev.  Bradford  Y., 

95,  127,  *23i,  247,  294,  338 

Averell,  James 119 

Avery,  Oscar  F., 

xiv,  *42,  65,66,213,  239 

Avery,  Mrs.  O.  F xi,  no,  211 

Ayers,  Enos 90 

Ayers,  Mrs.  Enos 213 

Baker,  A.  B 127 

Baker.  Miss  Bertha xi 

Baker,  Elihu xiv,  *58,  63 

Baker,  Lewis  C 1 18,  127 

Baker,  Wm.  M xiv,  67 

Baker,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  M... .  211 

Baker,  W.  T 210 

Balcom,  Mrs.  Uri 211 

Balfour,  Mrs 120 

Ballard,  Mrs.  E.  A 106,  21 1 

Ballard,  Rev.  F.  O 267 

Baptismal  Font 344 

Baptist  Church,  First 27 

Baptists  ..' 124 

Barker,  Mrs.  John 211 

Barker,  Mrs.  W xi,  113 

Barnard,  M.  R 83 

Barnes,  A.  H 127 

Barrows,  Rev.  J.  H., 

225,  253,  262,  278 
Bascom,  Rev.  Flavel, 

20,  22,  27,  225.  268 


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Bass,  George 

Bellas,  Mr.  and  Mrs  T.  H 210 

Bequests : 

John  Crerar 141 

Mrs.  C. '  Peck 145 

Mrs.  Eleanor  I.  Reid 146 

Blatchford,  Rev.  Dr 22,  335 

Blatchford.  Mrs.  E.  W 341 

Boice,  H.  M xvii 

Boomer,  Miss  Mary  M 84 

Boomer,  Rev.  W.  B.  ..127,  232,  247 
Bouton,  N.  S.  .xvii,  43,  65,  320,  339 

Boyer,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 26 

Boyer,  Mrs.  James 101 

Boyd,  Edward 77,  81,  234 

Bradley,  E.  L -. 143.  302 

Brooks.  Dr.  J.  A 211 

Bross,  J.  A 119 

Bross,  William, 

xvii,  73,  125,  126,  147 

Bross,  Mrs.  William 211 

Brown,  Mrs.  Abby  L 94 

Brown,  Mrs.  H.  C 19 

Brown,  Miss 108 

Brown,  S.  Lockwood,  xi,  26,  74, 

76,  81,  82,  100,  210,  211,  233,  333 
Brown,  William  H., 

xiv,  xv,  xvii,  *I9,  20,  21,  34, 

58,  59-  70,   73,    n8,  144, 

213,  224.  270,  282,  321 

Brust,  Edward xiv,  66,  67,  *239 

Building  Committee 31 

Building  enlarged 30 

Building,  The  first  Church *26 

Building  (the  present  Church) .  *4o 
Building  (the  Spotted  Church)  "31 

Buildings  (Church) 230 

Burbank,  E 95 

Burch,  I.  H 15,  *7o,  344 

Burch,  Mrs.  T 211 

Burdick,  Miss 108 

Burnham  &  Root 90 

Burr,  Jonathan 91,  234 

Burr  Mission 91,  234 

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Butler,  Miss  C 78 

Butler,  Miss  Mary 78 

Butler,  Walter 78 

Cable,  R.  R 90 

Cable,  Mrs.  R.  R 210 

Cairo,  Illinois 133,  333 

Calhoun,  Miss 106,  107 

Calvary  Church 233 

Campbell,  James 27,  30 

Campbell,  Mrs.  J 27 

Campbell,  Mrs.  M.  B xii 

Canal  Trustees 36,  37 

Carter,  Asher 33,  1 18,  213 

Carter,  Mrs.  Asher 106 

Carter,  Mrs.  Catherine  R 19 

Carter,  Thomas  B.,  xi,  xiv,  xv. 
19,21,31,43,62,66,67,  *68, 
81,  82,  118,  2ii,  224,  233, 

234,  246,  260,  289 
Cass,  George  W.,  xiv,  67,  90, 209,210 

Cass,  Mrs.  Geo.  W 210 

Case,  Miss  A  1 18 

Caton,  A.  J 90,  210 

Caton,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  D 211 

Celebration  of  the  Fiftieth  An- 
niversary   207.  209 

Chairs  from  Spotted  Church. . .   103 
Chamber  of  Commerce  Build- 
ing   : 20 

Chant,  H.  W 120,  121 

Chapin,  J.  P 213 

Chapin,  Mrs.  S 27,  94 

Chapin,  Mr 319 

Cheney,  Rev.  C.  E 343 

Chicago  Evangelist 126 

Chicago  in  1842  and  1892.  .221,  268 

Chicago  Presbytery 20 

Chicago  Theological  Seminary  123 

Chili 232 

China 107 

Choir 301,  303 

Choir,  Quartette 118 

Choir  (present) 121 


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347 


PAGE 

Choir,  three  periods  of 118 

Christ  Chapel  S.  S 77,  234 

Christ  R.  E.  Church  343 

Christian  Endeavor  Society, 

116,  304 

Church,  Accessions  to 26 

Church  Buildings 27,  230 

Church  Dedicated 28 

Church  enlarged 30 

Church  erection 1 50,  277 

Church  Psalmist 29 

Churches,  cost  of 45 

Churches  (other) 93 

Corner-stone 45 

Cincinnati  Presbytery 20 

Clark,  Mrs.  J 94 

Clark,  Mrs.  L 27 

Clark  street 27 

Clark  Street  Methodist  Church.  27 
Clarke,  George  C.  .xv,  70,  *237,  239 
Clarke,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  M.2io,  211 
Cobb,  Silas  B.,  xv,  30,  113,  146, 

211,  224,  246 

Cobb,  Mrs.  S.  B  213 

Cobb,  the  Mrs.  S.  B.  Cobb  bed, 

Presbyterian  Hospital 113 

Cobb,  W.  F 90 

Collins,  George xv,  70 

Colonies 94 

Colony  (First) 19 

Communion  Service 253,  344 

Congregational  Churches 25 

Congregational  expenses. .  .146,  147 

Congregational  Herald 126 

Congregationalists 25,  122,  276 

Congress 127 

Conservatism  (slavery) 24 

Contents  (Table  of) vii 

Conversions 237 

Cook,  H.  D xiv,  67 

Cook,  Miss  L 1 18 

Cook,  N.  B 119 

Coopward,  Miss 108 

Correspondence  Committee. . .  210 

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Couch,  Ira  H 26,  224 

Cowles,  A.  L 119 

Cowles,  Mr 121 

Crerar,  John,  xvi,  70,  71,90,  113, 
I37,*i39-  ti4i,i45,239>24o,282 

Couch,  Mrs.  Ira 211 

Couch,  Mrs.  James 211 

Crouch,  Mrs.  R.  B 113,  210 

Crouch,  Thomas 120 

Crumbaugh,  F., 

xiv,  65,  144,  *I45,  239 

Crumbaugh,  Miss 108 

Crumbaugh,  Mrs.  F 211 

Cundall,  Miss  F xi,  83,  86,  235 

Cunningham,  Rev.  N.  P 27 

Curtiss,  Rev.  H 123,  276 

Curtiss,  Lester xiv,  67 

Curtiss,   Uri 210 

Dakota 108 

Date  of  Fiftieth  Anniversary. .  209 

Davis,  Rev.  E.  R 339 

Davis,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  H 211 

Debt,  Church 230,  235 

Deacons,  Board  of xiv 

Deacons,  when  first  chosen 67 

Deceased  Members  (list) 176 

Decoration  Committee 210 

Dennison,  Mrs.  E.  H 95 

Densmore,  Mrs.  E.  W 211 

Dent,  Thomas, 

xiv,  66,  113,  209,  211 

Detroit 29 

Dickinson,  Rev.  E.  F., 

78,  80,  82,  83,  *87,  234 

Discipline 68 

Discussion  in  regard  to  remov- 
al from  the  Spotted  Church  327 

Dismissed  Members  (list) 176 

Dobyns,  W.  R 89 

Dodds,  James  A 127 

Dole,  George  W 19 

Dorcas  Society 100 

Dorman,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  M..  .     94 


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Dunham,  John  H xv,  90,  21 1 

Dunham,  Miss  V 1 13,  210 

Durrie,  Rev.  A 232 

Dyer,  Thomas 34 

Eames,  Mrs.  H.  F 211,  344 

Eddy.  Miss 120 

Eddy,  Rev.  A.  D 94,  231,  322 

Edifices,  Church 230 

Elders 20 

Elders  (list  of ) xiv 

Elders'  Meetings 58 

Elders  (from  Olivet) 42 

Elliott,  Rev.  G.  W 225 

Eleanor  I.  Reid  Kindergarten 

room 84 

Ely,  Mrs.  Edward, 

90,  104,  no,  in,  210,211,  213 

Ely,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward 95 

Ely,  Richard 213 

Entertainment  Committee. . . .  209 

Errata 344 

Erie  Street  Mission 233 

Erie  Street  Sunday-school 76 

Everett,  J.  C 210 

Exceptional  Population 109 

Executive  Committee 209 

Fairs 101 

Farwell,  Mrs.  G 210 

Farwell,  Mrs.  J.  A  . .  .120,  121.  301 

Farwell,  J.  V.  &  Co 38,  98 

Fellowship  Meeting 267 

Addresses  at — 

Dr.  Barrows 278 

Rev.  E.  B.  Hubbell  297 

4>.  McClure 288 

Dr.  Totheroh 293 

Dr.  Withrow 284 

Fiftieth  Anniversary 207,  209 

Committees 209 

Sermon 217 

Fifty  Years,  Changes  in 222 

Finance  Committee. ..  .  210 


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Fire  of  October  9,  1871 ..  .42,  77,  79 

First  Baptist  Church 27 

First  Church  building 21,  230 

First  Congregational  Church. . .  276 

First  Day  Jubilee  Services 213 

First  German  Evangelical 

Church 27 

First  Mission  Sunday-school  in 

the  West 76 

First  Presbyterian  Church, 

19,  22,  24.  25,  27.  225,  253,  334,  342 

Fish,  Miss 120 

Folsom,  Rev.  Ezekiel, 

127,  *  133,  333 
Foote,  Erastus, 

xiv,  66,  209,  211,  241 
Foreign  Missionary,  First  .    ...   128 

Forsythe,  R 82,  213 

Foundations  laid 33 

Fourth  Presbyterian  Church, 

232,  340 

Fox,  Mrs.  O.  R 120 

Free  Kindergarten  Association    85 

Freeman,  Robert 30 

Freeport  Presbytery 20 

French,  Miss  N 120 

Fullerton,  Mrs.  A.  N 19 

Gage,  Mrs.  S 19 

Galena , 122 

Galena  Seminary 122 

Gallagher,  Rev.  Dr 336 

General  Assembly  (Cleveland).  109 
General  Estimate  of  Influence 

of  the  Second  Church. . . .  148 

Gibbs,  Mrs.  G.  A 94 

Gibson,  Rev.  J.  Monro,  *xiii, 

*53,  98,  212,  213,  228,  230, 

235, 236, 245, 258, 340 

Giles,  Mrs.  W.  A 210 

Gillespie,  J.  M 90 

Goodrich,  T.  W 119 

Gothic  Church 32 

Gould,  Miss  Fannie 210 


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Gould,  John  S., 

xiv,  xvi,  43,  64,  113,  210,  260 

Gould,  Mrs.  John  S 210 

Gould.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tohn  S. .  211 

Gould,  William  R *38,  70 

Grant,  John  C., 

xi,  xiv,  66,  209,  210,  341 

Granger,  H.  C 127,  232,  247 

Gray,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  R 211 

Gray,  Miss  B 210 

Gray,  F.  D xvi 

Gray,  Mrs.  F.  D 1 10 

Gray,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  D  ....  211 
Grover,  Zwinglius,  xiv,  xvii,  *63, 

73,  213,  239 

Haddock,  E.  H. . .  .xv,  70,  224,  *226 
Haddock,  Mrs.  E.  H.  .211,  246,  344 

Hale,  Mrs 113 

Hallem,  Rev.  Isaac  N 27 

Hall,  Robert  G 88 

Harmon,  Miss  Sophia 26 

Harmount,  Mrs.  G.  A 106,  no 

Harrington,  Rev.  Joseph  N. . .  .     27 

Hartwell.  Miss 108 

Harvey,  T.  W.,  xvii,   109,  209, 

210,  241,  245,  282 

Hastings,  Francis  H 26 

Hastings,  F 119 

Hastings,  Mr 143 

Hatch,  Miss  J 86 

Hathaway,  I.  W.  .127,232,  247,  304 

Haven,  C.  A 121 

Hawes,  K. .  .xvii,  209,  210,  304,  316 

Hawes,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  K 211 

Hay  ward,  P , 82 

Helm,  L 82 

Helm,  Miss  N   113 

Henderson,  Howard 82,210 

Henderson,  Mrs.  H.  E  . . .  .210,  211 
Henderson,  Rev.  A.W.,  xvii,*73,  282 

Henson,  Rev.  P.  S 305 

Herald  of  the  Prairies 124 

Herrick,  Mrs.  L.  A 211 


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High,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 19 

High,  George  M xiv,  65 

High,  John 19,  31 

High,  John,  Jr xv,  70 

Hill,  Cyrus  F. xvii,  74,  213,  *24i,  282 

Hill,  Miss  E.  C 106 

Hillis,  Rev.  N.  D 267 

Holbrook,  Rev.  J.  C 126 

Holt,  C.  S. 91,  210 

Holt,  Mrs.  C.  S 210 

Holt,  D.  R., 

xiv,  xvii,  63,  73,  213,  321 

Home  for  the  Friendless 91 

Home  for  Incurables 136,  240 

Home  Missions 109 

Hood,  D.  N 121 

Hooker,  John  W., 

xv,  19,  70,  *223,  224 

Hooker,  Mrs.  J.  W 19 

Hosmer,  C.  B 37 

Howard,  R.  T 121,  301 

Howe,  R.  H 95 

Howe  Street  Mission. . .  76,  77,  233 

Hoyne,  Mrs.  T.  S 210 

Hoyne,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  T.  S 211 

Hoyt,  Miss  Cornelia 1 18 

Hubbard,  H.  G xv,  7*0 

Hubbard,  John  M 121 

Hubbard,  Mrs.  Juliette  W 26 

Hubbell,  Rev.  E.  B 249,  297 

Hughes,  W.  J.  H 83 

Humphrey,  Rev.  Z.  M 276 

Hunt.  Miss  Clara 211 

Hunt,  Edwin 213,  215 

Hunt,  W.  F xiv,  66,  210 

Hyde  Park  Presbyterian 

Church 127 

Hymn  (Memorial)  by  Erastus 

Foote 241 

Illinois  Central  R'y  (station). .  .  38 

Illinois  College 23 

Illinois  and  Michigan  Canal. . .  36 

Illustrations,  list  of v 


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Immanuel  Church,  88,  95,  232,  241 

Increase  in  Membership 26 

Incurables,  Home  for 136 

Independent.  The 126 

India 107,  108 

India,  Missionary  to 128 

Indian  Territory 112 

Industrial  School 117 

Influence  of  the  Second  Church  148 

Interior,  The 126 

Interior  of  the  present  Church 
Building  as  it  appeared  dur- 
ing the  Semi-Centennial.  ...*2I2 

Interior  of  the  Spotted  Church.  35 

Invitation  Committee 210,  211 

Invitation,  Form  of 212 

Isham,  E.  S xv 

Isham,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  S. . . .  211 

Isham,  Miss  Lizzie 210 

Isham,  P 210 

Jackson,  H.  W., 

xii,  xvi,  209,  210,  343 

Jackson,  Miss 120 

Johnson,  H.  xv,  81,  120,  121  234,  302 

Johnson,  Seth xiv,  19,  62 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Seth 19 

Jones,  Fernando. ...    319 

Jones,  Mrs.  F 26 

Jones,  Reuben  D .xiv,  *6i,  63 

Jubilee  Services — 

Communion 213 

Fellowship  Meeting 267 

First  Day 213 

Letter,  Dr.  Gibson 258 

Reception 300 

Sunday-schools 241 

Judd,  N.  B 224 

Judd,  Mrs.  N.  B 211 

Judson,  Dr 213 

Kasson,  Mrs.  Melinda 27.  94 

Keeley  Hall 88 

Keep,  Albert 91,  147,  209 

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Keep,  Mrs.  Albert 106 

Keep,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert 211 

Keep.  Henry xi 

Kellogg,  C.  P. .  .xv,  xvii,  43,  70,  *74 
Kellogg,  Mrs.  C.  P. . .  .91,  210,  211 

Kellogg,  Palmer  V 213' 

Kendall,  Rev.  H 150 

Kimball,  Mrs.  H 118 

Kimball,  Miss  H 118 

Kimball,    Walter xv.     70 

Kindergarten,    The  Eleanor  I. 

Reid 84 

Knox,  Mrs.  J.  S 113 

Ladd,  Mrs.  Mary  Jane 27 

Lake,  D.  J 81,  234 

Lake  Forest 44,  288.  289 

Lake  Forest  Association, 

123,  124,  289 
Lake  Forest  Church, 

232,  288,  289,  291 
Lake  Forest  University,  60,  123, 

124,  147,  151,  276.  288.  289,  292 
Lane  Theological  Seminary. . .     23 

Laos 107 

Lawrence,  Miss  A 210 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  M.  S 211,  337 

Letters  from — 

Rev.  W.  W.  Adams 303 

Rev.  C.  E.  Cheney. . .   343 

Z.  S.  Ely 301 

Rev.  J.  M.  Gibson.  .245.  258,  340 

Rev.  Dr.  Hathaway 304 

Henry  Johnson 302 

Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter 341 

Lewis.  Miss 120 

Lincoln,  Robert xvi 

Lists  of — 
Members  of  the  Church, 

1842-92 153 

Members  of  the  Sunday- 
school  (1892) 250 

Officers  and  Teachers  of  the 
Sunday-school  (1892) 249 


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351 


PAG  E 

Present  Members  of  the 

Church 157 

Location,  Changes  of 31 

Lord,  Erastus  D 27 

Lot,  Selection  of 28.  36 

Lunt,  Orrington 37 

Main,  Miss  A 120 

Manierre,  George 37,  213 

Manners  of  Church-going 29 

Margaret  McKay  Bed 113 

Marquis,  Rev.  Dr 94 

Marsh,  Miss  S 1 18 

Maryville,  Tenn 48 

Mason,  Edward  G xi,  xvi,  210 

Mason,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  G 211 

Mateer,  J.  H 127 

Mather,  Hiram  F xiv,  63,  *66 

Matteson.  Mrs  120,  302 

Matteson,  Mrs.  Joseph 113,  210 

Matteson,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  J 211 

McCagg,  Miss  A 1 18 

McCarrel,  A.  F 121 

McBirney,  Hugh 91,  210 

McClure,  Rev.  J.  G.    K.   (ad- 
dress)    288 

McCormick,  J.H 44 

McCormick  Seminary 123 

McGenniss,  J.  W xv,  *34,  70 

McNamee,  Mr.  Theodore 32 

McKey,  Miss  Sarah 26 

McPherson,    Rev.    S.    J.,    xii. 
*xiii,  *55,  84,  85,  88,  109,  217,  245 

Meacham,  Miss  Augusta 27 

Meacham,  Mrs.  Rebecca 27 

Meacham,  Silas 27 

Meeker,  Joseph 78,  143 

M.  E.  Church  (Clark  St.)...  .27,  37 

M.  E.  Church  (State  St.) . 37 

M.  E.  Church  (Wabash  Ave.).     37 

M.  E.  Church  Block 39 

Members — 

Absent 154 

Present 157 

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Deceased 176 

Dismissed 176 

Members  of  the  Church. 

1842-92 153 

Members  of  Sunday-school  . .  250 
Members  ordained  to  Ministry  176 

Members,  removal  of 38 

Membership 238 

Memorial  Hymn  (Erastus 

Foote) 241 

Merrill,  G.  W xv,  19,  21,     70 

Merriman,  Henry  P, 

xiv,  xvii.  66,  209 
Merriman.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  HP..  211 

Messiah,  Church  of 27 

Metcalf,  R 82 

Methodists  and  Presbyterians. .  307 

Mexico.' 108 

Michigan  Avenue 43 

Millard  Rev.  N 231 

Millard,  Mr 322 

Mission  Schools  of  the  Church,  233 

Missions,  Sunday-schools 76 

Missions,  S.  S.  Work 337 

Missionary  and  Benevolent  Or- 
ganizations     loo 

Missionary  Boxes 105 

Missionary,  the  First  Foreign. .   128 

Ministry 127 

Ministry,  Members  ordained  to  176 
Ministers  from  the  Church. . . .  247 

Monroe,  Michigan 23 

Moody,  D.  L 98 

Moore,  Miss  E.  V 118 

Moore,  John  G xiv,  67,    82 

Moore,  Mr.  and  Mrs  S 94 

Morning  Worship  Jubilee — 

First  Day 213 

Mormons 1 1 1 

Morristown,  N.  J  33 

Moseley 234,  240 

Moseley  Chapel 79 

Moseley,  Flavel. 

19,  21,  79,  145,  224,   234 


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Moseley  Missions,  S.  S 77,  241 

Mothers'  Meeting  (Moseley). . .     83 

Munger,  Mrs.  M.  E  128,  *I29 

Munger,  Rev.  S.  B 128,  129 

Murdoch,  Thomas, 

91,  113,  147,  210,  211,  344 

Music 28,  118 

Music,  Committee  on,  for  Fif- 
tieth Anniversary 210 

Music  Jubilee  Services — 

First  Day 213 

Neahr,  Mrs   M.  J xi 

Newhall,  Miss  L 1 18 

New  School 226 

Newspapers,   Religious 124 

New  York  Evangelist 126 

Nichols,  A.  B 128 

Nichols,  Rev.  G.  P 231 

Nichols,  J.  F xvii 

Nichols,  Miss 120 

Norris,  B.  F 80,    82 

North  Presbyterian  Church. 93,     94 

Officers    and   Teachers    of  S. 

S. ,  list 249 

Old  School 226 

Olivet  Church,  40,  45,  79,91,94 

97,  231,  232,  321 

Olivet  Prayer  Meetings 323 

Olmstead,  L.  D 78 

Ordained  to  Ministry,  Members  176 

Organization 19 

Organ  (1845) .  1 19,  120 

Organist 121 

Original  Members 19 

Other  Churches 93 

Ottawa  (Presbytery). . .  .20,  24,     28 
Ottawa  (Presbytery),  divided. .     20 

Page,  Miss  A 210 

Page,  Benj.  V xv 

Page,  C.  L xvii,  282 

Page,  Mrs.  C.  L xi 

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Page,  Mrs.  J.  E 26 

Page,  Peter xv,  70,  213,  *232 

Page,  Mrs.  Peter 85,  210,  211 

Paige,  Nathaniel 94 

Pastors xiii,  20,  22,  48,  228 

Pastors  of  First  Presbyterian 

Church 22 

Pastors  Salary 20 

Patterson,  Rev.  R.  W.,  xi,  xii, 

*xiii,  20,  22,  23,  28,  29,  44, 

45,48,*49:  53,  1 19*213,  227, 

228,  241,  246,268,  290 

Patterson,  Mrs.  R.  W *5o,  106 

Patterson,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  R.W.  212 
Patterson,    Mr.    and    Mrs.    R. 

W.Jr 211 

Peck,  Mrs.  C.  C *I34,  145,  240 

Perry,  Mrs.  S.  A 211 

Persia 106 

Personal 127 

Pettibone,  A.  G xiv,  66  209 

Pilgrims.  Church  of  (N.  Y.) . . .     32 
Pike,  E.  S.  .xvi,  88,  89,  91,  209,  210 

Pike,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  S 21 1 

Pike.  Mrs.  E.  S 113 

Pitkin,  Miss  L 94 

Pitkin,  Mrs.  N 94 

Plan  of  U  nion  Presbyterians 

and  Congregationalists. ...    122 

Poague,  Miss '. 107 

Poem,  Rev.  F.  W.  Gunsaulus..  311 

Political 127 

Political  Situation 23 

Porter,  Rev.  Jeremiah 22,  341 

Portraits  at   Fiftieth  Anniver- 
sary   213 

Portraits,  List  of v 

Power  of  Second  Church 224 

Prairie  Herald 125 

Prayer,  Fiftieth  Anniversary, 

first  day 214 

Prayer  .Meeting,  Fiftieth  Anni- 
versary      ....  312 

Prayer  Meetings 316 


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353 


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Preface xi 

Presbyterian  Churches 39 

Presbyterians  and  Congrega- 

tionalists .' 122 

Presbyterians,  Conservative  ...  25 

Presbyterian  Hospital 112,  146 

Presbyterian  League 90 

Presbyterian  Recorder 126 

Present  Church  Building 40 

Price,  Jeremiah 31 

Printing  Committee  (Fiftieth 

Anniversary) 210 

Professional 127 

Pullman,  Miss  F 210 

Pullman,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  M..  211 

Purington,  George xiv,  64 

Purington,  J.  E 234 

Quartette  Choir 1 18 

Quartette  Choir  (first) 1 20 

Quinlan,  Charles  H xv 

Ralston, Henry  M.,  xiv,  xvii,  66,  210 

Ralston,  Mrs.  H.  M 210 

Ralston,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  M. .  211 
Ralston,  Robert  W. , 

82,  88,  *9i,  92,  213,  234 

Ranza  Sitt .   109 

Randolph  Street 27,  36,  37 

Raymond,  Mrs.  Amelia 19 

Raymond,  B.  W.,  *xiv,  xv,  19, 
20,58,  59,  60,70,  118,  144, 

213,  224,  229,  270,  319 
Raymond,  Mrs.  B.  W.89,  136,  *i37 

Raymond,  George  L 127 

Read,  Leander 43 

Read,  Mrs.  L 211 

Ream,  Norman  B 210 

Reception  Committee  for  Fif- 
tieth Anniversary 209 

Reception  (Jubilee) 300 

Reed,  Josiah  H xv,  119 

Reid,  Eleanor  1 235 

Reid,  Eleanor  I.,  Kindergarten    84 

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Reid,  Wm.  H.gi,  108,  146,  210,  235 
Reid,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H.,  86,  211 
Reid,  Mrs.  W.  H. .  108, 146,  210,  344 

Religious  Newspapers 124 

Removal  from  the  Spotted 

Church 327 

Reno,  Tenn 48 

Remvick,  James 32,  43 

Revivals 96 

Revival  of  1858 96,  97 

Revival  of  1845 98 

Revival  of  1876-7 98 

Rhea,  Mrs.  S.  J 106 

Richardson,  Rev.  R.  H 93 

Robertson,  Mrs 108 

Rockwell,  Mrs.  H.  M 211 

Ross,  Miss .     85 

Root,  Miss  F 120 

Root,  Miss  H 118 

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Sabin,  A.  R xvii,  121 

Sale  of  old  lot •=' 37 

Saloon  Building *28,  230,  270 

Sanger,  Mrs.  M.  C 211 

Sanitary  Commission 133,  333 

Satara .- 132 

Scammon,  J.  Y 38 

Seamen,  Work  among 1 14 

Sears,  E.  H 119 

Seaverns,  C.  H 120,  121,  302 

Seaverns,  G.  A 121 

Seely,  Mrs.  E.  J 27 

Sermon,  Anniversary 217 

Secession  from  the  Denomina- 
tion    149,  275 

Session 58,  273 

Sextons  . . . : 143 

Shaw,  T.  A 91,  113,  210 

Shaw,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  A 211 

Shipman,  Miss  L 118 

Sioux  Indians 106 

Sister  Churches 26 

Skinner,  Mark, 

xiv,  xv,  *64,  70,  213,  224 


354 


INDEX. 


PAGK 

Skinner,  Mrs.  M 213 

Slavery 23,  26,  93,  125,  270 

Sloan,  H.  L. .' 121 

Smith,  Rev.  C.  B 27 

Smith.   Henry 94 

Smith,  James  A xv,  *36,  70 

Smith,  Miss  Joanna 118 

Smith,  Mrs.  M.  W 94 

Smith,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  W. . .  211 
Snow,   George  W., 

xv,  31,  *33,  70,  213,  344 

Sopranos 120 

Souvenirs,  S.  S 247,  248 

Spear,  Mrs.  V 26 

Specs,   Rev.  S.  G  122 

Spire  repaired 45 

Spotted  Church *3i,  33,  43,  230 

Removal  from 327 

Sprague,  Mrs.  A.  A 1 13 

Sprague,  Mrs.  O.  S.  A 113 

Sprague,  W 121 

St.  Andrew's  Cross 306 

Starkweather,  C.  H 224 

Starkweather,     Mr.   and    Mrs. 

C.  H 211 

Starkweather,  C.  R 19 

Starkweather,  Mrs.  M.  E 19 

State  Bank  of  Illinois 30 

State  St.  Mission 78,  234 

Stearns,   M.  C 37 

Steele,  Mrs.  C 210 

Steele,  Frederick  W..xiv,  67,  209 

Steele,   Mrs.  George 211,344 

Stimson,   W.  E 1 19 

St.  James'  Episcopal  Church. ..     27 
St.  John's  Wood  Church,  Lon- 
don   261 

St.     Mary's    Church,     Roman 

Catholic 27 

Stones  of  Spotted  Church... 44,  232 

Stryker,  Rev.  M.  W 233,  267 

Sunday,  June  19  (Communion).  253 

Sunday-school 236 

Sunday-school  Jubilee  (address)  241 

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Sunday-school,  Jubilee  of 241 

Sunday-school,  List  of  Officers 

and  Teachers 249 

Sunday-school,  Members  of. . .  250 

Sunday-schools,  Church 72 

Sunday-schools,  Mission 76 

Sunshine  Bed 112 

Superintendents  of  Sunday- 
school  xvii,    73 

Survivors 19.  246 

Survivors  at  end  of  fifty  years..  224 

Sutton,  J.  B 119 

Swedenborgians. 38 

Swezey,  M.  B 43 

Tabernacle 98 

Tablets,  Memorial 46,  47 

Tabriz 106 

Taylor,  Mrs.  Charles 27 

Taylor,  H.  K 27 

Taylor,  Matthias 27 

Taylor  Street  Mission 78,  234 

Teachers  in  S.  S 249 

Temperance  Work 1 16 

Temple,  D.  H 128 

Tenors 121 

Third  Presbyterian  Church... .  276 
Thomas,  B.  W.,76, 209,  232, 233,337 

Thomas,  Mrs 120,  302 

Thomas,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  W.94,  211 

Thompson,  H .  M xv,     70 

Thompson,  J.  L xvi,  70 

Totheroh,   Rev.  W.  W 293 

Tract  Society 115 

Treasurers'  Reports 145 

Tremont  House  101 

Trustees xv,  21,  70,  273,  274 

Trinity  Episcopal  Church 79 

Tripoli 107 

Turner,  A.  M 209 

Tuttle,  Fred xv,  70 

Twenty-fifth  Anniversary  Ser- 
mon   220 

Tyler,  Elmer 26 


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Tyler,  Mrs.  Elmer 26 

Union  Communion  Service. . . .  253 
Union  of  Olivet    and    Second 

Churches 41 

Unitarian  Church,  First.  . .  .27,     28 
Updike,  Mr.  P.  L 37 

Van  Hook,  Mrs 107 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  C.  H 94 

Wadsworth,  Elisha, 

xv,  21,  *24,70,  344 

Wadsworth.  Julius 31 

Wahl,  Rev.  S.  F 27 

Waite,  H.  F xvii 

Walker,  Rev.  J.  B 124 

Walker.  Mrs.  W.  B no 

Ward,  S.  D xi,  81,  209,  234,  331 

Ward,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  D.   ...  211 

Warner,  S.  P 143,  213 

Warren,  Mrs 108 

Watchman  of  the  Prairies    ...    125 
Webster,  Mrs.  Ann  E. .  19,^23,  246 

Weed,  Rev.  I.  M 123 

Wells,  Miss  J 120 

Wentworth,  John, 

*i27,  213,  319,  329,  330 

Wersencraft,  Mrs.  Jane 27 

Western  Herald 124 

Westminster  Presbyterian 

Church 94,  232 

Wheeler,  Mr.  Hiram 37 

Wheelock,  E.  D 82 

Whitcomb,  L.  E 94 

Whiting,  Samuel  B 26 

Whitlock,  Mrs.  L 120 

Wicker,  C.  G xv,  70 

Wicker,  Mrs.  C.  G 211 

Wier,  J.  B 27 

Wight,  Rev.  A.  S., 

128,  231,  313.  344 
Wight,  Rev.  J.  Ambrose,  xiv, 

xvii,  62,  73,  94,  '95,   125, 

126,  127,  231,  247,  322 
Wilcox,  Edward 94 

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Wilcox,  Mrs.  M.  E 94 

Wilson,  Mrs.  Agnes 26 

Willard,  Sylvester,  xiv,   *xvii, 
19,  20,  58,  61,  73.  224,  270,  282,344 

Williams.   E.  M 127 

Williams,  John  C., 

xiv,  *2O,  62.  213,  224,  247 

Williams,  Mrs.  John  C 229 

Williams,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  C. .  341 

Williams,  Miss  L 210 

Willliams.  Norman, 

xvi,  46,  47,  209 
Williams,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  N. 21 1,344 

Williams,  Miss  Susie 78 

Williams,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  B. .     95 

Willing,  Henry  J xiv,  65,  233 

Willing,  Mrs.  M.  J 211 

Withrow,  James 94 

Withrow,  Rev.  J.  L 284 

Woman's  Auxiliary 109 

Woman's   Presbyterian    Board 

of  Missions 108 

Woman's  Foreign    Missionary 

Society 105 

Woman's  Home  Missionary  So- 
ciety    109 

Woman's  Presb.  Board  of  Mis- 
sions of  the  Northwest. . . .   105 

Work  Commenced 33 

Worship,  Place  of 27 

Wright,  Miss  Frances  S 19 

Wright,  John  S 19,  224 

Wright,  Mrs.  John 229 

Wright,  T 40 

Wurtz,  Maurice 76,  233 

Yoe,  P.  L xv 

Young  Ladies'  Foreign  Mission- 
ary Society 108 

Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion.     331 

Young  Men's  Mission 233 

Young  People's  Association  ...  1 16 
Young  People's  Prayer  Meeting  303 
Young  People's  Work  113 


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